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Directed by | Liv Ullmann |
Screenplay by | Liv Ullmann |
Based on | Miss Julie by August Strindberg |
Produced by | Tristan Orpen Lynch Aoife O'Sullivan Teun Hilte Oliver Dungey Synnøve Hørsdal |
Starring | Jessica Chastain Colin Farrell Samantha Morton |
Cinematography | Mikhail Krichman |
Edited by | Michal Leszczylowski |
Production companies | Maipo Film The Apocalypse Films Company Senorita Films Subotica |
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Running time | 130 minutes |
Countries | Norway United Kingdom Ireland France |
Language | English |
Budget | $5.5 million[1] |
Box office | $1.02 million[2] |
Miss Julie is a 2014 period drama film written and directed by Liv Ullmann, based on the 1888 play of the same name by August Strindberg and starring Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton.[3] Set in Ireland in this adaptation, it had its world premiere in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.[4] It was a co-production of Norway, United Kingdom, Ireland, and France.
The film is set in 1890, in County Fermanagh (in what is now Northern Ireland) during the course of a single Midsummer Night. Miss Julie, the daughter of an Anglo-Irish landlord, attempts to seduce her father's peasant valet, John. The affair – overshadowed by power and class – quickly goes to some dark places.[5][6]