Meryl Streep as Julia Child in the movie Julie & Jullia
I enjoyed seeing the movie Julie & Julia this afternoon. A married woman in Queens, New York, a few years ago cooks during one year all the recipes in Mastering the Art of French Cooking and blogs about it. Interspersed are scenes from the life of Julia Child in the 1950’s when she co-authored her famous cookbook with Simone Beck. Meryl Streep plays the part of Julia Child well but stops a little short of doing a full imitation of her, probably for the better. On the whole the movie is pleasant and worth seeing.
One scene takes place in South Station, Boston, but was not actually shot there, one reason being that the waiting room with the big wooden benches, where the scene is supposed to be taking place, was in the part of the station that was torn down a few decades ago when the station was reduced in size. I remember that waiting room from my childhood and it wasn’t so spacious or so glamorous as it appears in the movie.
Julie & Julia theatrical release page at amazon.com
