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Tilda Swinton’s “Julia” finally crosses the Atlantic

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the linster

Being typecast is one thing Tilda Swinton certainly never needs to worry about.

Swinton seems to be able to play anyone, from The White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia:

To the sexually ambiguous Orlando:

To, well, Tilda Swinton:

Last year, Swinton was the talk of the Berlin Film Festival in Julia, playing an alcoholic, manipulative liar who eventually kidnaps a young boy, hoping to extort a $2 million ransom. According to Times Online:

Swinton is a total joy. She looks like a bad jigsaw. She slaps on the make-up at 9am and her face is falling off by lunchtime. Her scathing sense of humour is fabulously bleak. She is 40, single, lonely, and stalked by a mad female neighbour who also happens to be the most fervent member of the local branch of Alcoholics Anonymous. Her name is Elena (Kate del Castillo), and it is her son whom Julia steals.

Finally, the movie is making its way to the U.S. and is scheduled to open May 8 in limited release. Here’s the trailer:

Looks to me like Tilda can turn even this train wreck of a woman into someone worth watching. Is Julia on your spring movie list?

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    • Submitted by
    the linster
    on April 23, 2009 - 11:00am.
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    Ellen's picture

    She looks kinda like Lena

    Submitted by
    Ellen (124 posts)
    on April 23, 2009 - 11:39am.
    She looks kinda like Lena Headey on that film poster. Obviously I'm not biased that way or anything :P
    LCTRgirl's picture

    Obviously ;-)  She's my

    Submitted by
    LCTRgirl (234 posts)
    on April 23, 2009 - 1:20pm.

    Obviously ;-)  She's my second choice for my display picture :-D

    I agree with you though.

    Anonymous's picture

    I want to see this

    Submitted by
    Anonymous
    on April 23, 2009 - 3:36pm.
    I want to see this
    ostinato's picture

    finally!

    Submitted by
    ostinato (5 posts)
    on April 23, 2009 - 4:06pm.
    that's great news. I loved this movie. Saw it twice. Swinton is just magnificient in there.
    Kim's picture

    Yes!

    Submitted by
    Kim (188 posts)
    on April 23, 2009 - 5:13pm.
    This looks really good.  I hadn't heard anything about it until this article.  Swinton is so talented and great in every role she takes on.  I saw her at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002.  She was there supporting an odd little film she made called Teknolust, in which she played four different characters.  It wasn't a great film, but I enjoyed the screening.  Swinton was quite sick with a cold or the flu, but she still attended the screening and did the Q&A with the director.  I thought that was really cool of her.
    anna's picture

    sweet! wonder if it's

    Submitted by
    anna (130 posts)
    on April 23, 2009 - 7:47pm.

    sweet! wonder if it's coming to australia. heh if not there's always the internet :)

    but no srsly yay for tilda. i fucking love orlando.

     

     

    Shannon's picture

    Tilda Swinton

    Submitted by
    Shannon (699 posts)
    on April 24, 2009 - 5:07am.

    Is a wonder.  The woman is incredible to watch and I think, personally, she should take home a treasure trove more of trophies for her acting and it wouldn't be enough.  I really ,really like her!  Can't wait to see this movie.  

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