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Miss Julie definitely gives Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell room to shine, but neglects to leave them a solid enough setting to augment their efforts. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

A baron's frustrated daughter (Jessica Chastain) courts scandal and more when she tries to seduce her father's valet (Colin Farrell).

Rating:

PG-13 (Language|Disturbing Images|Mature Thematic Material|Sexuality)
Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Liv Ullmann
Producer:

Synnøve Hørsdal, Oliver Dungey, Teun Hilte
Writer:

Liv Ullmann
Release Date (Streaming):

Dec 19, 2015
Runtime:

2h 9m
Production Co:

Subotica, Maipo Film, Senorita Films, Apocalypse Film Co.

Cast & Crew

Jessica Chastain
Julie

Colin Farrell
Jean

Samantha Morton
Kathleen

Nora McMenamy
Young Julie

Liv Ullmann
Director

Liv Ullmann
Writer

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Critic Reviews for Miss Julie

All Critics (54) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (26)

Chastain is as brittle and fragile a Miss Julie as ever there was.

March 2, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Tara Brady
Irish Times
Liv Ullmann's adaptation of August Strindberg's play might best be billed as a midsummer night's sex tragedy. It is on the overwrought side.

September 4, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Geoffrey Macnab
Independent (UK)
All talents are ill-served by the unambitious handling of the material.

September 3, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Sophie Monks Kaufman
Little White Lies
Polished, but lacking in scandalous tragedy.

September 3, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

David Parkinson
Empire Magazine
The adaptation is Ullmann's own, and it has been done with purpose and intelligence.

September 3, 2015 | Full Review…

Nick Pinkerton
Sight and Sound
The film remains mostly boxed up in the kitchen, and the upstairs-downstairs tension, in both senses, dissipates.

September 3, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Kate Muir
Times (UK)
There are many things worth commending, one of which is the strength of the performances. But as I step back and think about it as an overall piece, I find myself overwhelmingly ... unaffected.

July 17, 2020 | Rating: B- | Full Review…

Allen Almachar
The MacGuffin
A film which aims to leave a bad taste in your mouth, for Miss Julie the question is whether that's a fatal flaw or an unrelenting examination of the ugly human heart.

May 7, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Sophie WIng
One Room With A View
Rife with mawkish histrionics and a thoroughly overwrought script, it's hard to maintain interest in what should be an intriguing watch.

April 6, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Allie Gemmill
CineVue
Unfortunately the static nature of the sets and the cinematography make it difficult for the film to overcome its stage origins, and threatens to undermine the naturalistic conceit.

December 11, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Di Golding
Dear Cast and Crew
In this overly literal adaptation, we know invisible forces are at work only when characters directly address their presence.

October 5, 2018 | Rating: C- | Full Review…

Sky Hirschkron
The Film Stage
Strindberg's searing insight into human nature is at the root of the film's power. Familiar and recognisable behaviours and illuminating truths, often painful, open our eyes to our frailty and greed.

August 30, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Anne Brodie
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Audience Reviews for Miss Julie

Feb 05, 2015

The three actors, especially Chastain and Farrell, are splendid in this talky and bleak adaptation whose theatrical origins are quite transparent, but which unfortunately starts to resemble more and more a melodrama as the (overlong) story advances and finally falls flat in the end.

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