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August 7, 2009
At the Movies: Send 'Julie & Julia' back to the kitchen
By CHRISTY LEMIRE
AP Movie Critic
AP Movie Critic
The Julia parts in “Julie & Julia” are a delight. The ones about Julie? More like an annoying distraction.
Writer-director Nora Ephron has woven together the real-life stories of two women separated by decades and a body of water but connected by a love of food and a quest for identity. One is Julia Child (Meryl Streep), the larger-than-life TV cook and author who inspired untold numbers of ambitious gourmands to embrace French cuisine the way she had. The other is Julie Powell (Amy Adams), a cubicle dweller who spent a year making all 524 recipes in Child's “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” and blogging about it, hoping to find some purpose as she turned 30 in post-9/11 New York.
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