Julie & Julia

Two for the Stove

In an understated but nonetheless climactic scene in Nora Ephron’s “Julie & Julia,”Julia Child (Meryl Streep) and her editor, Judith Jones (Erin Dilly), struggle to come up with a title for the culinary doorstopper Julia has spent the past eight years composing. It’s not an especially suspenseful moment — pretty much anyone who has cooked an omelet knows what the book is called — but it gives Ms. Ephron and the audience a chance to savor the precise nature of Julia Child’s achievement.
The book is “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” — not “How To” or “Made Easy” or “For Dummies,” but “Mastering the Art. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (8035 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 7 agosto 2009