Julie and Julia. A review.

Written by Lucy Handley

Julie and Julia is a film,brought out last year, is a film about the twinned stories of two women brought together by a shared love of cooking and desire to spread their message to the world around them.

It focuses on Julia Childs,a famous chef from 1950s America and her struggle to come to terms with a lonely life in Paris. After developing a real passion for cooking Parisien food, Julia then fights to publish an English language cook book of the most significant recipes from traditional French food.


50 years later, Julie a tele-insurance (?) operator living in Queens,New York is facing the same struggle to find something meaningful in her life. She sets herself a challenge: to cook and sample all 525 of Julia Childs recipes from her groundbreaking book in 365 days and she sets about blogging on her efforts. The film focuses around the relationship which Julie develops with the both her online community,through the comments left on her blog site and donations sent in in aid of her challenge, and also with the image of Julia Childs she creates throughout the year spent reading and cooking her recipes.

parkour motion reel from saggyarmpit on Vimeo.

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written by Eelyn Lee, January 06, 2010
Hey Lucy......I see you managed to embed a Vimeo link - I like that parkour animation - really cool. Have you seen the work of Blu on You Tube? Check out MUTO - it's amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4
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