Julia- Opens in NY & LA

Tilda Swinton is one of those actresses of tremendous talent.  I always find her fascinating to watch and am amazed at how completely different she is in all her roles.  But sometimes her talent outweighs the film she is in, and that’s the case with Julia.  Swinton plays a raging alcoholic staring at rock bottom and desperate for a way out.  The problem for her is that she’s not looking for recovery, she’s looking for a shortcut.  She thinks she finds a way out of the black hole her life has become by getting involved in a harebrained kidnapping scheme with an unstable woman trying to get her son back from his rich grandfather.  They don’t make a great pair.  The plot starts to unravel after the kidnapping, and the film strangely devolves into a south of the border road movie.  Thankfully, by the end of the film, Swinton gets some semblance of redemption as she is pulled back towards humanity by this young boy she is holding hostage.

Swinton is fantastic as a raw, defeated, deflated full on raging alcoholic.  I was mesmerized watching her performance.  She rocks, and I wish the movie (written and directed by Erick Zonca) rose to her level.

Here’s a video interview with Swinton done by Damon Smith for Filmmaker magazine.

Films Currently in Theatres
American Violet- currently playing: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, New Jersey, San Francisco, and DC
Treeless Mountain- LA, SF
The Lemon Tree
Sunshine Cleaning
Duplicity
Pray the Devil Back to Hell- various screenings check website

Women Directed Films
Sugar- directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck

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