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Julia's problems trace back to its source, a Lillian Hellman story that appeared in her 1973 memoir, Pentimento...
Curiously enough, the film's creators have not addressed themselves to the cinematic challenges that Julia raises. Instead, they misguidedly reproduce Hellman's convoluted narrative, all the while padding the story with superfluous scenes that add literal-minded psychological footnotes to the action. The movie that emerges is a glossy bio flick that superficially charts the rise of Lillian Hellman, Young Leftist Playwright...
Julia, based on a section of Lillian Hellman's autobiographical book Pentimento, is a sensitive, occasionally self-conscious story of Hellman's lifelong friendship with a woman she calls Julia. The film recounts the girls' adolescent escapades while revealing the foundations of the political beliefs that will eventually take Julia from medical school at Oxford to a workers' community in Vienna. The women are separated through most of their lives; but Julia's need for Hellman's aid in her anti-fascist activities prior to World War II reunite them, with repercussions that even a writer of dime state...
...newest film, Julia, an autobiographical account of Playwright Lillian Hellman's life in the '30s, offers Fonda and Co-Star Vanessa Redgrave two roles that are far more powerful than most recently available to women. Fonda plays Hellman, and Redgrave plays Hellman's friend Julia, a committed antifascist. The movie opens Oct. 3, and TIME Los Angeles Bureau Chief William Rademaekers talked to Fonda about it and about her life today...
...wanted the challenge of playing this other woman, Lillian Hellman, who was so different from me. I didn't spend very much time with her-just a day and a half-but I read everything she wrote. What was particularly helpful to me were her plays. Somehow the spirit of the woman, the subconscious, was more in the plays...