It’s a Great Time to Be Silver
Julie and Julia (2009)
directed by Nora Ephron
rating: 3 out of 5 cravats
seen on the screen at the Manor Theatre
Praising what I liked in Julie and Julia brings to mind a bulletin board filled with index cards that must have hung in Nora Ephron’s office last fall. A tasteful depiction of sexual attraction in a middle-aged couple? Check. No sordidness to cheapen a story intended to be as light as air? Ditto. A few off-color jokes to make the 75 year-old target audience feel 56 again? I could go on forever, but Elizabeth and I were the only people in a crowded matinee theater (old people are as cheap as ever) under the age of 60. And that, for all the movie’s undeniable charms, is all you need to know.
directed by Nora Ephron
rating: 3 out of 5 cravats
seen on the screen at the Manor Theatre
Praising what I liked in Julie and Julia brings to mind a bulletin board filled with index cards that must have hung in Nora Ephron’s office last fall. A tasteful depiction of sexual attraction in a middle-aged couple? Check. No sordidness to cheapen a story intended to be as light as air? Ditto. A few off-color jokes to make the 75 year-old target audience feel 56 again? I could go on forever, but Elizabeth and I were the only people in a crowded matinee theater (old people are as cheap as ever) under the age of 60. And that, for all the movie’s undeniable charms, is all you need to know.
posted by NPK at 12:11 PM
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