My Year with Meryl Streep: Julie & Julia (2009)
A look at Nora Ephron’s final film, one that earned Meryl her sixteenth Oscar nomination!
I recently spent a whole year watching a Meryl Streep film every week, and I thought I’d share with you some of the reviews I wrote for her many classic films!
Julie & Julia (2009)
Julie & Julia is one of Meryl’s most enchanting movies ever, a supremely entertaining love letter to Paris, New York, food, and love. The late, great Nora Ephron wrote and directed the film, her last, with wit and affection, and assembled a terrific group of actors who fit their roles perfectly and who infuse the movie with their own unique charms. Julie & Julia opened in August 2009, soon after Meryl’s smash hit Mamma Mia and her multiple-Oscar-nominated Doubt, so one could say that she was at the true height of her career at this point, with her masterful performance as Julia Child giving audiences yet another excuse to fall in love with her all over again.
The film is based on two non-fiction books — My Life in France, by Julia Child, and Julie & Julia, by Julie Powell — and Ephron could have chosen to make either one into its own separate film. In interviews, however, she stated that from the beginning she was only interested in making a movie…
