Being Julia

Year: 2004

Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, Lucy Punch

Duration: 104 min

In 1938, in London, the successful and famous theater actress Julia Lambert (Annette Bening) has an open marriage with her husband and manager, Michael Gosselyn (Jeremy Irons). She meets Tom Fennel (Shaun Evans), an ambitious young man of half her age that wants to socially rise, they have an affair and she has a crush on him. Later, Tom has an affair with the aspirant starlet Avice Crichton (Lucy Punch) and uses Julia to get a part for Avice in her new play. Julia travels abroad, visits her mother, and when she returns to London, she plots a magnificent revenge.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Genre: Action   Comedy   Drama   Romance