MISS JULIE (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty), Colin Farrell (In Bruges), Samantha Morton (In America), Nora McMenamy (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Liv Ullmann (Faithless), director, writer; Oliver Dungey (film debut), Teun Hilte (Black Book) and Synnøve Hørsdal (Happy, Happy), producers; Mikhail Krichman (Leviathan), cinematographer; Michal Leszczylowski (Lilya 4-Ever), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Over the course of a midsummer night on a Fermanagh estate in 1890, Julie (Chastain), the unsettled daughter of a wealthy aristocrat, encourages her father’s valet John (Farrell) to seduce her…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

August Strindberg’s play is adapted with a starry minimal cast and some gorgeous historical sets and costumes giving it a more theatrical presence.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER 2015

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