Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

a film who must see. for cast, off course, but, in same measure, for the story. for Annette Bening giving an extraordinary role. and, sure, for Shaun Evans who represents a revelation. a film about marriage, theater, love, compromises, need to escape from ordinary life circles and the revenge. a film who, at the first sigh, gives nothing new. but who impress. for an inspired way to build, step by step, in each detail, a shining world. the humor and the science of Annette Bening to do a gorgeous role. two motifs to enjoy "Being Julia".

For those who love the theatre (an unfortunately increasingly shrinking group for unfortunately shrinking performance venues) this film is like candy, centering around an aging actress who needs a new challenge of some kind, who is tired of playing the same old script to adoring fans, who still wants to grow and perhaps find some romance in her life.Being Julia could be standard "chick flick" material, but because Director Szabo has surrounded perfectly superb Bening with an exciting supporting cast and lavished the screen with lush period sets and handed his actors a literate script (with a well-deserved comeuppance for a deserving victim), the film is great fun, perhaps reflecting a theory that many of us wear masks of our own designing, that Being Julia is as complex as attempting to being ourselves.

Spectacular, seductive, powerful and impressive. A beautiful script and an extraordinary cast. Annette Bening in one of most remarkable creation. A magnificent show, with taste of lost era, with strong recipes and joy of play. A film about mirror of life. Art, love, seduction and cruel games as ingredients of a cake with a very intelligent flavor in which cinnamon an pepper, hot chili and cream are ingredients. A chocolate cake. For mind and for the chance to find a intelligent story about the basic things of marriage and every competition. "All about Eve" and Shakespeare comedies in same package.So, must see it!

A mature theatre actress gets through a midlife crisis, she feels old and tries to find the fountain of the eternal youth in the arms of a young admirer.The setting of "Being Julia" is just wonderful and the movie has touches of drama and comedy. Anyway, it wouldn't anything to write home about if it wasn't for Anette Benning... To think that Reese Witherspoon won the Oscar instead of Anette makes me sick. The character that Benning plays has only a fault: who wouldn't fall in love with her? No matter if you're 23 or 56. There's nothing rare about that, is there? Meet Julia, you'll fall in love with her.*My rate: 7/10