Title: Great Entertainment; true period style
Review: I enjoyed "Being Julia" a lot. Annette Bening is excellent, totally in command of this extremely complicated character. The final "stage scene" is a display of breathless insanity. Most enjoyable.Able support from Jeremy Irons, Shaun Evans and the always reliable Juliet Stevenson gives us some very individual characters that only add to the enjoyable goings-on.Fine direction from veteran Istvan Szabo helps to maintain a steady period sensibility. It's hard to describe to cleverness without giving away essential plot points, but I enjoyed it very much, and am still in awe of Ms. Bening's achievement.She keeps losing Oscars to Hilary Swank, but given more great roles like this one, she's bound to win someday...Fine DVD extras, though few.
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