Julia

Tilda Swinton stars in director Erick Zonca's drama about a 40-year-old alcoholic who, in a rare moment of sobriety, sees where her life is headed and makes one last-ditch attempt to steer herself away from the disastrous path that she has been locked on for as far back as she can remember. Julia ...more

As the hard-drinking, hard-luck, and just plain hard Julia, Tilda Swinton is a frantic force of nature and a garishly glorious mess. Swinton doesn't just chew the scenery in this down-and-dirty kidnapping-gone-wrong saga, she devours it. There probably won't be a more attention demanding, shamelessly uninhibited, totally WATCH ME ACT performance onscreen this year. French director/writer Erick Zonca first shows Julia as a loud party girl having a little too good a time at a bar with fellow ...more

Like John Cassavetes' Gloria, Erick Zonca's Julia is an uncompromising character study of a tough-as-nails lady who wants to protect a boy from an unforgiving world full of people who want nothing more than to exploit him. The difference between the two films is that where she was a cop before, now she's a self-destructive alcoholic. We meet Julia (Tilda Swinton) at a party where she knocks back drink after drink with the gusto of a frat boy, and flirts with almost any man that comes into her ...more