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SYNOPSIS

Moving the action of August Strindberg's canonical play from Sweden to County Fermanagh in the north of Ireland, Ullmann's film opens as the eponymous Julie, daughter of an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, sets out to seduce one of her father's senior servants, the worldly valet John. The charged flirtation between the two doubles as a kind of psychological gamesmanship, which deepens and darkens as the night rolls on — much of it witnessed by the house cook Kathleen, who, despite being John's's ostensible betrothed, remains quietly resigned throughout.

Liv Ullmann


Liv Ullmann was born in Tokyo and raised in Toronto, the United States, and Norway. The ten films in which Liv Ullmann starred for Ingmar Bergman represent one of the greatest director-actor collaborations in cinema history. It was no surprise, then, that when Ullmann herself moved into the director's chair, she demonstrated an unerring ability to summon the best from her casts. That skill is once again on display in her adaptation of Miss Julie, a lacerating study of class, power, and desire that unfolds one Midsummer's Eve in the late 1800s.

Filmography

2014 Miss Julie
2000 Faithless
1995 Kristin Lavransdatter
1992 Sofi

Festivals
2014 Toronto, Chicago, Valladolid


Chastain, who seems incapable of a bad performance, brings an Ophelia-like vulnerability to Miss Julie, the lonely and depressed daughter of a count.
Sarah Stewart, New York Post