Saffron Burrows distinguishes herself from her contemporaries with her turn in this film. She plays the daughter of a count, whom is very friendly with the help and handmaids within her household. Sooner than later she falls for one them, a sinister footman who seems to have tactfully seduced her. She loses herself to him in one of the most intense love scenes...um sex scenes I have ever seen in a film so far. To call that a love scene would be an atrocity and an insult to all love scenes, it looked like consensual rape, but I'm just saying. Anyways, the rest of the film deals with the whole psychological drama that take place in the wake of the relationship. Miss Julie (Burrows) slowly becomes mad and you just know that after this, it really cannot end well. Yet, I cannot wait to see Rachel Weisz play this character on Broadway!
Review of Miss Julie
