"Sex, love and food." These are the three things that you should never, ever give up in life. Meryl Streep tells us, the undisputed protagonist of this fourth edition of the Rome International Film Festival, and Nora Ephron tells us with his film "Julie & Julia", presented out of competition between previews.
The stories of two women, providentially with the same name, are embellished with different planes of time to tell us about their need to be made and their pursuit of happiness.
While Julia Child started his adventure in Paris after World War II, where she moved with her husband Paul, used the U.S. secret services, Julie Powell works in an organization formed after Sept. 11 to help people affected by the terrorist attack. Both are in the food stimulus and a reason to change their lives.
fact, if Julia is the first woman who managed to enter the exclusive cooking school "Cordon Bleu" and that makes it available to the American art of French cuisine with the famous book "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" (in collaboration with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle) and then with the television program "The French Chef", Julie decides to start writing a blog on the internet to witness the original challenge which is with itself: to prepare to perfection the 524 recipes in Julia Child's book 365 days.
To support the two women in their companies are their two husbands, Paul Child and Eric Powell, who with much patience and much love, learn to accept and comply with the 'obsession' for the food of her companions, also by tasters officers, and their desire to be involved in something.
It 's impossible not to recognize in its interpretation of the Child, the skill of Streep, who takes possession of the character with an impressive safety but did not finish in the imitation and caricature. It instead gives an overview personal and fun but not overshadowing or the young Amy Adams, or the excellent husband Stanley Tucci film.
A comedy from fresh ingredients and assayed milligram, which can make you laugh and move and above all to remember that life is made up of small pleasures and sweet delights.