Julie & Julia
365 days, 524 recipes – Bon Appetite!!
So the movie is about Julia Child and Julie Powell, both come from different times. Julia Child, played by ever, so genius and chameleon-like actor, Meryl Streep and Amy Adams plays Julie Powell, a struggling secretary at public office, living above a pizza shop in Queens, NewYork.
The movie keeps switching between two eras, 1960 and 2002 and narrates the struggles of both the women.
Nora Ephron has given us many wonderful movies, and sadly this was the last before her demise. She brings two real-life stories, "My Life In France" written by Julia Child, and "My Year of Cooking Dangerously" by Julie Powell.
While Julia is bored in France and trying to find inspiration, her diplomat/saint husband, Paul, played by charismatic Stanley Tucci, is exceptionally supportive in helping her figure out. She picks up hobby after hobby and realizes she enjoys nothing but eating exquisite food.
That led her to Le Cordon Bleu, the prestigious institute where she was only ovary and remaining testosterones. It was quite competitive, and that perhaps is the reason she pushed herself and started learning viciously, and became a star chef.
Meanwhile, she and her friends started working on a book, with the aim to help Americans cooks French Cuisine. It took her years to write it and later faced hardship and rejections to get it published, but then the book became a huge success.
Now back to Julie Powell, an unhappy writer, who works at a crappy job (must pay well, for all the groceries she does daily), picked up a rattled and abused copy of Julia Child’s cookbook from her mother’s house. The book inspired her to push herself into cooking all recipes, and she started blogging about it.
Surprisingly, this happened even before there was WordPress; while she worked miserably at day, she cooked exotic food at night. In her blog, she pledged to cook 524 recipes in a year, took her readers through her experiences of the day, and adventures of cooking.
In the course of her journey, she learns to cook lobsters, bone a duck, Boeuf Bourguignon and cakes that make you drool.
Julie is a fantastic writer, and her journal gradually becomes famous; she romanticized her misadventures in word like “ignonimous”, completely keeps you hooked. She feels Julia Child is talking back to her, as she cooks in her matchbox kitchen, and the lucky husband gets feasts, failures, and often meltdowns for dinner.
The movie takes you through the journey of both women from shallows to their successes, and the movie is an amazing watch.
Highly recommended!!
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