SFFS Screen Presents: Julia
- When
- Event has passed (Fri Jul 10, 2009 - Thu Jul 16, 2009)
- Cost
- $8 - $14
- Tags
- Movies, Film Screenings
Description
Julia (France/USA/Mexico/Belgium 2006), Erick Zonca's take on John Cassavetes' Gloria, featuring a riveting performance by Tilda Swinton.The key to Swinton’s performance is that she’s playing a wily, desperate woman under the influence who adapts herself to what each new situation calls for, sometimes well, sometimes badly, but always with every fiber of her being. Her faces are many, including the eerie black death mask she wears when she agrees to help her unstable Mexican neighbor (the superb Kate del Castillo) kidnap her young son from the clutches of his wealthy grandfather. It’s a crackpot scheme made more so by Julia’s half-cocked attempt to secure herself a bigger share of the ransom money, and by the time the movie winds its way from Los Angeles to Tijuana, one kidnapping gives way to another with no end in sight.
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