Miss Julie is a claustrophobic class study set within a 19th-century Count's kitchen. It chronicles the events of one midsummer night when the housemistress--an obstinate and confused Julie (Saffron Burrows)--is beaten in a round of sexual gaming with footman Peter Mullan. Based on the play by August Strindberg, the film maintains a constant sense of theatre by only having three speaking parts (the other coming from Maria Doyle Kennedy as Christine, the long-suffering cook and fiancée), just one set and a penchant for hand-held camerawork by director Mike Figgis. Known... for his experimental approach to storytelling, this is technically a predecessor to Figgis' Timecode, since the all-important rape scene is conveyed through a disorientating split-screen technique. He'd worked with fellow Brit Burrows before on The Loss of Sexual Innocence and One Night Stand, but gives the gal with the outsized cheekbones top billing here and is rewarded with a thoroughly rounded performance. Backed by the director's own musical score, this melodrama has a very personal feel to it. --Paul Tonks [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Saffron Burrows and Peter Mullan deliver riveting performances in this tale of desire passion and betrayal that pits upper-class against lower-class in a superbly staged battle between the sexes With a script based on August Strindberg&39;s famous play and written for the screen by Helen Cooper Oscar nominated director Mike Figgis presents a taut and intimate story holding you with the intensity of his vision and his mastery of nuance from beginning to end On a late 19th-century estate a celebration of wine and beer lets loose inhibitions and inner passions Jean (Mullan) the Count&39;s footman takes the advances of the Count&39;s daughter (Burrows) too far with a scandalous encounter in the kitchen And over one night it becomes clear that these two lost souls desperately need each other in order to escape the confines and trappings of their lives But can a servant support a noblewoman who without her father&39;s money is no more privileged than he? Actors Saffron Burrows Peter Mullan Maria Doyle Kennedy Tam Dean Burn Heathcote Williams Eileen Walsh Sue Maund Joanna Page Andrea Ollson & Sara Li Gustafsson Director Mike Figgis Certificate 15 years and over Year 1999 Screen Widescreen 1851 Languages English - Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Subtitles English Duration 1 hour and 37 minutes (approx)
August Strindberg's classic play, brought to the screen by director Mike Figgis ('Leaving Las Vegas', 'Internal Affairs'), relates what transpires one midsummer night in the 1890s, when a footman (Peter Mullan) working at a large Swedish country estate finds himself caught between the Count's daughter (Saffron Burrows) and his girlfriend the cook (Maria Doyle Kennedy). The footman has dreams of rising above his station, and sees his opportunity when the Count's daughter, enjoying the frivolity of the midsummer's festivities, begins to flirt with him. She herself also wants to break with the confines of her current life, and seizes the advances of the footman as a way of realising her own freedom. Together they plan their escape, but it is an alliance which can only end in tragedy.
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