Miss Julie

Starring: Peter Mullan, Saffron Burrows Director: Mike Figgis Original UK Premiere: 2000 Dvd Release: 23rd April, 2001 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: English

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Miss Julie is a claustrophobic class study set within a 19th-century Counts kitchen. It chronicles the events of one midsummer night when the housemistress, an obstinate & confused Julie , is beaten in a round of sexual gaming with footman Peter Mullan. Based on the play by August Strindberg, the film maintains a constant sense of theatre by only having three speaking parts , just one set & a penchant for hand-held camerawork by director Mike Figgis. Known for his experimental approach to storytelling, this is technically a predecessor to Figgis Timecode, since the all-important rape scene is conveyed through a disorientating split-screen technique. Hed worked with fellow Brit Burrows before on The Loss of Sexual Innocence & One Night Stand, but gives the gal with the outsized cheekbones top billing here & is rewarded with a thoroughly rounded performance. Backed by the directors own musical score, this melodrama has a very personal feel to it.

Peter Mullan is a Scottish actor who has been appearing in films since 1990. Mullan was born in Peterhead in the northeast of Scotland, somewhat removed from the sectarian tensions in the West of Scotland. He was the fifth child of eight born to a devoutly Roman Catholic mother & a Scottish father. The family moved to Cardonald, a working class suburb on the south side of Glasgow where Mullans father worked as a tool-maker & lab technician. An alcoholic & latterly a sufferer from lung cancer, Charles Mullan became increasingly tyrannical & abusive. When he was 14, Peter tried to poison him with sleeping pills. Peter was a member of a street gang while at high school & worked as a bouncer in a number of rough south-side pubs. His father died on the day Peter started his studies at Glasgow University. At University Mullan began acting & continued stage acting after graduation. 84 & Wildcat theatre companies. He had small roles in several Scottish films, including Shallow Grave, Trainspotting & Braveheart & a supporting role in Ken Loach s Riff-Raff.

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Saffron Dominique Burrows is an English actress. // She was born in London to a politically activist family. Both of her parents are socialists. At age 15 she was discovered by a modeling talent scout & she began a successful modeling career in England & France. Two years later she chose to pursue an interest in acting. She debuted in the film Welcome to the Terra Dome as Jodie, then had a role in the movie In The Name of the Father. Her first significant acting role was in Circle of Friends, which included Colin Firth & Minnie Driver. Subsequently she appeared in Hotel de Love. Since then she has acted in numerous other films, including a number of less-celebrated movies & a few flops. In 1998 she was apparently fired from Woody Allen s film Celebrity for being insufficiently vulgar. During 1999 she appeared in the sci-fi Wing Commander, the thriller Deep Blue Sea & The Loss of Sexual Innocence. The following year she played a role in Miss Julie & Time Code. In 2001 she had a part in Enigma & in 2004 she played the part of Andromache in the big-budget movie Troy.

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