Julia

I can't help it, but this essentially psychological film about dependence on another woman, which leads the main character into rather uninteresting situations, even though it occasionally tries to add some tension, simply didn't entertain me. The acting isn't bad, but neither actress stands out for me here. This was just average for me. And I'm a nice guy. (20/04/2017)

A strong topic and an appropriate challenge for Jane Fonda, whose political and environmental activism and her desire to be a strong personality prove that no guy would be able to keep up with her for a long time. And so it is, Jason Robards managed it for only nine minutes and the Academy gave him an Oscar for secondary role… But I digress, Julia perhaps is mostly about Jane Fonda, who handles the role very well, but also stands on a script that relies primarily on automatic empathy and doesn’t throw at the viewer anything that would suddenly shake them or be etched in their memory while they are in a comfortably watching mode. Zinnemann is an experienced and competent filmmaker, but he should work with more adrenalin-packed stories like The Day of the Jackal, which I could not take my eyes off. Julia is nice and narratively original, but it didn’t impress me much and, for instance, Jason Robards didn’t manage to sell the character well enough to be fundamentally important to the story. The ending just fizzles out… (21/04/2020)