Julie & Julia

Julie & Julia

30-year-old Julia was so tired of her unattractive job as a secretary that she decided to somehow diversify her life and find salvation - at least in the kitchen. With the help of Julia Child's recipe book "How to master the art of French cuisine", the main character tries to cook 524 dishes - and all this in one year! She once again proves that the gray mundanity of life can be overcome with the help of humor, perseverance, patience and work. Read more In the new romantic comedy "Julia and Julia" directed by Nora Ephron, Meryl Streep plays Julia Child, and Amy Adams plays the writer Julia Powell. Julia Child was the woman who changed America's view of food. In 1948, Julia Child (Meryl Streep) was a simple American living in France. Her husband's work brought them to Paris, where she simply could not sit still and had to do something. Fifty years later, Julie Powell (Amy Adams) reached a dead end. She is almost 30 years old, she lives in Queens, works in an office, while her friends have achieved a lot in life, she personally has nothing to brag about. Juli decides to spend almost an hour preparing one dish every day from the 524 recipes that Julia Child described in her book The Art of French Cuisine, and at the same time keep a blog about her culinary experiments. Director/producer/screenwriter Nora Ephron combined these two remarkable stories into one romantic comedy that proves that if a person has passion, obsession and a clear goal, then he himself can change his life and make his dreams come true. Columbia Pictures presents Nora Ephron's Julia and Julia. Starring: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tuzzi, Chris Messina and Linda Emond. Directed by Nora Ephron. Producers: Lawrence Mark, Nora Ephron, Amy Robinson and Eric Steele. Screenplay by Nora Ephron. The film is based on the books "Julia and Julia" by Julia Powell and "My Life - France" by Julia Child and Alex Prudhomme. Executive producers: Scott Rudin, Donald J. Lee Jr. and Dana Stevens. Cinematography by Stephen Goldblatt. Production designer Mark Ricker. Edited by Richard Marks. Costume designer Anne Roth. Music by Alexander Desplat. The film will be released in Ukrainian cinemas on October 15. OFILME "It's a movie about love, about family, about how to change your life," says Nora Ephron about what inspired her to create the movie "Julia and Julia." - I'm obsessed with cooking, but I had at least eight or nine other reasons to make this movie. It's like doing things that bring a lot of pleasure." The film combines two exceptional books: "Julia and Julia" by Julia Powell and "My Life in France" by Julia Child and Alex Prudhomme. "My Life in France" is Child's memoir about life in post-war Paris with her husband, a foreign worker Paul Child, and how she was able to turn her love for French cuisine on a mission - to convey this love to American women. After she became the first American to study at the famous French culinary school, Julia decided to tell everyone about the charms of this exquisite cuisine and co-authored the book The Art of French Cuisine. The popularity of the book made Julia a star in the United States. "Speaking of passion, Julia Child didn't just have a passion for her husband or only for food, she had a passion for life," says Meryl Streep. - She liked to be alive and infect others with this mischievous spirit." Half a century later, in 2002, New York resident Julie Powell was about 30 years old. She was not satisfied with her pen test, and she worked for a company that rebuilt the World Trade Center after the September 11 disaster. Wanting to change something in her life, Julie decides to devote 365 days to cooking 524 recipes of Julia Child, and to describe her experiences in the blog. With the support of her husband Eric, who, it is necessary to say, was very happy with her wife's culinary experiences. Today, blogs are no longer a novelty, but in 2002, Julia was one of the pioneer bloggers. This blog became as popular as Child, so she decided to publish the book Julia and Julia: dangerous cooking, which was published by Little Brown in 2005. But even before the book went to press, producer Eric Steele learned about it by reading a culinary profile of Amanda Hesser. - She has a large audience. By the time I found her, thousands of people were reading her blog every day.” At the same time, producer Amy Robinson was thinking about making a film about the life and love of Julia and Paul Child. After hearing that Steele had acquired the rights to Jula Powell's story, Robinson suggested combining these two stories: "I thought we could combine these two stories, these two married couples, these two women who were trying to find themselves." This project attracted the attention of writer/director Nora Ephron, who is also crazy about cooking, producer Lawrence Mark and executive producer Scott Rudin. "When I started, I couldn't even imagine that the result would be a book, and that the book would be popular, and that Nora Ephron would make a movie, or that Meryl Streep and Amy Adams would star," says Julie Powell. "They created a beautiful movie about love, about being brave and persistently going for your goal."