Julia (2008) – You Aren’t Required To Like Her At All
January 27, 2012
Think of that plot of the well-planned, thought-through kidnapping drama where the criminal mastermind has a location chosen and a hand-picked team of co-conspirators and every move planned three steps in advance. Well, this is most certainly not that. Julia (Tilda Swinton) is a brash-talking, loudmouthed alcoholic who can’t hold down a decent job and who is getting too old for the party-all-night lifestyle, which doesn’t stop her in the least from taking a new man to bed, or, you know, out to the parking lot, every night. As we are introduced to the lady in question she is already getting so riotously drunk that her lips are going numb and she can’t keep her balance on the six-inch heels she totters about on whilst singing along with Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams”. It is the first in a long succession of extremely drunken nights that end in bad decisions and one-nighters that leave Julia surly, hung over and decidedly deshabille when she wakes up not knowing where she is or what she’s done.
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