Miss Julie (1999)

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Rating: R
Release Date: Dec 10, 1999
Running Time: 103 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Country Of Origin: United States
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It is a midsummer's eve and the old Old Count departs his estate to celebrate elsewhere. He leaves his beautiful daughter Julie, the last in the long line of his noble family. Miss Julie is despondent after the breaking off of her engagement to be married. She dances and drinks with the servants who certainly do not accept her as one of their own. A little drunk, she finds herself alone in the kitchen with Jean, her father's footman. Jean is a strange man--handsome and anarchistic, resentful of the class system but greedy to rise to the top. For many years, he has watched and desired the young Miss Julie. They carry on drinking and become involved in an intense and revealing conversation which draws them together as the night goes on. By this late hour Miss Julie has begun to show signs of her deep depression and sometimes unbalanced state of mind. Jean sees her weaknesses and exploits them, humiliating her and pushing her towards the self-destruction that she has been hinting at all evening.
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The works of August Strindberg, long considered one of the world's

greatest dramatists, are often characterized as misogynistic and not

without reason.

Working out his own psychological problems (he was illegitimate and

thrice married), the Swedish author wrote essays titled "Woman's

Inferiority to Man" and grappled with the battle of the sexes in several

of his plays, including the one-act "Miss Julie" that has made its way

to film in an adaptation directed by Mike Figgis.

While it's unlikely… Continued