{"id":3022,"date":"2009-08-07T11:06:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T11:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2009\/08\/julie-julia-a-sweet-dish.html"},"modified":"2009-08-07T11:06:17","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T11:06:17","slug":"julie-julia-a-sweet-dish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2009\/08\/julie-julia-a-sweet-dish.html","title":{"rendered":"‘Julie & Julia’: A Sweet Dish"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For many, the name Julia Child only conjures up caricatures of a quirky, middle-aged woman in frumpy clothes. I mean, I know I certainly have fond memories of Dan Aykroyd’s portrayal of her on “Saturday Night Live.”<\/a> But Julia Child was far more than that. Before there was the Food Network<\/a> or Martha Stewart<\/a>, there was Julia. She brought French cuisine to the masses with humor and style while becoming one of the first women to be truly successful on a television talk show. As a pioneer foodie and feminist, she believed cooking was a sensory experience to be relished.<\/p>\n

It is this side of Julia Child that “Julie & Julia”<\/a> focuses on. “Julie & Julia” is based on a book of the same name by Julie Powell, a young woman who cooked her way through one of Julia Child’s cookbooks and wrote a blog about it. To her surprise, she then finds herself empowered by the experiment. It’s a fun premise, if not exactly a great one, that makes for enjoyable summertime move fare–though I think the movie is more of a tasty appetizer than a main course.<\/p>\n

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The strongest portions of this movie are, as one might suspect, the ones with Meryl Streep<\/a> as energetic, fearless Child. One of the aspects of the movie I like best is the way that it portrays Child’s loving and supportive relationship with her husband, Paul (Stanley Tucci<\/a>) as he cheers on her desire to cook and find success. This movie is truly a celebration of feminism, as well as food, in this way as well because the romantic relationships in this film recognize men and women’s equal contributions to a relationship.<\/p>\n

But it is the Julie Powell <\/a>(Amy Adams<\/a>) part of the movie that works less well. Adams plays Powell, a women in a dead-end job in a post 9\/11 world, as adorbable and cute and endearing. Yet somehow I found her adventure into the world of Julia Child not completely convincing–even as I realize it actually did happen in real life. Somehow, Powell’s hunger for new direction and purpose doesn’t come through as strongly as I wanted amidst the bubbly sweetness and frothiness.<\/p>\n

Still, these are two completely worthwhile women to spend a little time with this weekend. “Julie & Julia” does not join my list of great food movies like “Big Night<\/a>” or “Babette’s Feast<\/a>” which truly resonate with the spiritual elements of making food, but it does provide several morsels of enjoyment and a few bits of wisdom to chew on. It is certainly better than much of the louder, bawdier, sillier movies the cineplex is serving up right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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