Swinton’s portrayal of an alcoholic is dead-on. We see Julia as someone who could have had a completely different life, if it weren’t for her love affair with booze.Īnd Ms. There’s a sense of refinement underneath all that drunken swagger and mouthy indifference, and it compounds the tragedy. Tilda Swinton is too aristocratic to play a real broad, and that’s what’s so interesting about how she embodies Julia. That, and Tilda Swinton’s ballsy, knockout performance as Julia. The scenes involving the young boy may be off-putting to some, but they ultimately provide the glue that keeps us in our seats for over two hours. Not only is he the victim of criminal act whose life is constantly being placed at risk, it is our heroine who is the perpetrator. To top it off (and alienate some audiences who think children and violence shouldn’t mix), there’s the fate of a young boy right in the middle of it.
#MR.SIMPSON CHUBBY GAY PORN SERIES#
Then, in an abrupt and daring change of genre, the film turns into a crime thriller, an intense, almost painful to watch series of events that prove our heroine can not only drink, but she can shoot, too. Julia at first seems like another Bressonian slice of realism, a sad portrait of an alcoholic woman who is about a hair’s breadth away from hitting rock bottom. Starring: Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo, Aidan Gould, Jude CiccollelaĮrick Zonca’s first film in the decade following his brilliant first feature, The Dreamlife of Angels, is a strange duck of a movie.