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Being Julia

Synopsis

Julia Lambert is a celebrated and glamorous actress, famous throughout England and happily married for years to her agent, Michael. But underneath the artifice, she is tortured by her fading looks, her philandering husband and her estranged son. When she meets Tom, a young American fan, she is swept off her feet, and embarks on a secret and passionate affair which threatens to create a social scandal that could destroy her career and marriage; until she discovers he has had an ulterior motive all along. There is no way that Julia Lambert is going to be taken for a fool, and she plans her revenge, the ultimate act of a woman scorned.

Details

Year
2004
Type of project
Features
Running time
105 mins
Director
István Szabó
Producer
Kirk D'Amico, Marion Pilowsky
Co-Producer
Kirk D'Amico, Marion Pilowsky
Editor
Susan Shipton
Screenwriter
Ronald Harwood, (adapted from a W.Somerset Maugham novella)
Director of Photography
Lajos Koltai
Composer
Lesley Barber
Principal cast
Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons, Juliet Stevenson, Michael Gambon

Genre

Literary Adaptation Comedy Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Myriad Pictures

51-55 Mortimer Street
London
W1W 8HJ
UK

T+44 (0)20 7580 9200

www.myriadpictures.com

Sales Company

Myriad Pictures

51-55 Mortimer Street
London
W1W 8HJ
UK

T+44 (0)20 7580 9200

www.myriadpictures.com

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