Miss Julie

1951 [SWEDISH]

Action / Drama / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 66% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 66% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 2242 2.2K

butler countess class differences midsummer impossible love

Director

Alf Sjöberg Photo
Alf Sjöberg

Top cast

Bibi Andersson Photo
Bibi Andersson as Dancing girl
Helga Brofeldt Photo
Helga Brofeldt as Maid
Anders Henrikson Photo
Anders Henrikson as Count Carl, Julie's father
Max von Sydow Photo
Max von Sydow as Hand
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827.39 MB
956*720
Swedish 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
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1.5 GB
1424*1072
Swedish 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by adelmomen1989-35-282340 7 / 10

Jean and Julie perform as the Count and Countess in La La Land

Reviewed by Irene212 8 / 10

Headlong desire

Alf Sjöberg's film is a thrilling example of a stage play opened to the full potential of cinema. The scenes with dialog are liberally interrupted with scenes of headlong, almost feverish motion-- dancing, running, riding in pony traps or on horseback. Edited with alternating close-ups and wide shots, Sjöberg creates a vigorous rhythm, the feeling of life being lived at full tilt.Unfortunately, it exposes the flaws inherent in August Strindberg's 1888 play, "Miss Julie," which is a rather heavy-handed allegory of social Darwinism-- "survival of the fittest" as Europe's aristocracy faces the rise of the bourgeoisie, including the servant class, now aspiring to more.Miss Julie (a luminous Anita Björk) and her father's ambitious manservant Jean (Ulf Palme) have been keenly aware of each other since childhood. Now adults, they are among dozens of couples celebrating Midsummer Eve on the Count's Swedish estate, with ample beer and music, which fuel flirtation and off-screen copulation.While Jean and Julie consummate their attraction behind a closed door, the camera leads us back into the Midsummer festivity in its full pagan throes, rhythmically edited to culminate in a salute of gunfire as dawn approaches. "Miss Julie" is a beautiful reminder of what lyricism filmmakers were capable of when art, and the world, understood and valued the power of suggestion and metaphor.Julie and Jean's strong desire for each other never rises to love, and is forbidden in the class system, but they ultimately cannot resist each other, and a high price is paid by one of them. Too high a price, if you ask me, and I'm not alone: Strindberg's dénouement remains controversial.
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