JULIA
by Erick Zonca
synopsis
The life of Julia, a 40 year-old seductress, who finds it increasingly difficult to hide her alcoholism and ends up out of her depth. At an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting she encounters a young Mexican woman who can no longer see her son so Julia accepts to kidnap the eight year-old boy. Despite the sudden disappearance of the young woman, Julia succeeds in the kidnapping but gets caught up in an infernal spiral and frantically escapes to Mexico, with the child’s grandfather hot on their heels.
original title: | Julia |
country: | France, Belgium |
sales agent: | StudioCanal |
year: | 2007 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Erick Zonca |
release date: | FR 12/03/2008, BE 07/05/2008, DE 19/08/2008, NL 14/08/2008, UK 28/11/2008, ES 27/02/2009, PT 19/03/2009 |
screenplay: | Erick Zonca, Aude Py |
cast: | Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo, Aidan Gould, Jude Cicolella, Bruno Bichir, Horacio García Rojas |
cinematography by: | Yorick Le Saux |
film editing: | Philippe Kotlarski |
art director: | François-Renaud Labarthe |
costumes designer: | April Napier |
producer: | François Marquis, Bertrand Faivre, Hubert Toint, Allen Bain, Jesse Scolaro, Sandra Solares |
production: | Les Productions Bagheera, France 3 Cinéma, StudioCanal, Saga Film (BE), Le Bureau (FR) |
distributor: | StudioCanal, Cinéart (BE), Artificial Eye (UK), Vertigo Films (ES), Lusomundo (PT) |