IFTA First Look Screening – Miss Julie

The Irish Film & Television Academy is delighted to host the First Look Screening of Irish feature film Miss Julie on Tuesday December 2nd in The Light House Cinema, Dublin.

Written and directed by the Academy Award nominated director Liv Ullman, Miss Julie is adapted from the acclaimed stage play by August Strindberg and stars Golden Globe & IFTA winning actor Colin Farrell and Academy Award nominated actresses Jessica Chastain and Samantha Morton.

Co-produced by Subotica Films and filmed entirely at Castle Coole, Fermanagh in Northern Ireland the film received a favourable critical response at its World Premiere in Toronto recently with Indiewire describing it as a "masterful display of vile, dirty and mercurial emotion... unforgettable in every sense of the word" and praising "Chastain's most frightening, mature, and volcanic performance of an already resplendent career". The film also features Irish creative talent behind the camera including costume designer Consolata Boyle and the film was post-produced by Tim Morris and Sarah Carahar at Windmill Lane, while Dave Hughes worked with DOP Mikhail Krichman on the grade

Synopsis

Miss Julie depicts a fierce battle between a man and a woman, a struggle for power and dominance enacted through a cruel and compulsive game of seduction and repulsion. A country estate in Ireland in 1880s. Over the course of one midsummer night, in an atmosphere of wild revelry and loosened social constraints, Miss Julie and John, her father's valet, dance and drink, charm and manipulate each other. She, all hauteur longing for abasement; he, polished but coarse - both united in mutual loathing and attraction. By turns seductive and bullying, savage and tender, their intimacy leads to desperate plans and vision of a life together... Unsure if the morning brings hope or hopelessness, Julie and John find their escape in a final act as sublime and horrific as anything in Greek tragedy.