Synopsis
Using never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouth-watering food cinematography, the film traces Julia Child's surprising path, from her struggles to create and publish the revolutionary Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) which has sold more than 2.5 million copies to date, to her empowering story of a woman who found fame in her 50s, and her calling as an unlikely television sensation.
Ratings
IMDb7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes96%
Metacritic69/100
13 audience votes
Key crew
- Julie CohenDirector
- Betsy WestDirector
- Rachel PortmanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Julia ChildSelf (archive footage)
- José Andrés PuertaSelf
- Ruth ReichlSelf
- Cecile RichardsSelf
- Marcus SamuelssonSelf
- Sara MoultonSelf
- Ina GartenSelf
- Charles GibsonSelf
- Jacques PépinSelf (archival footage)
- Antonietta BrownellGala Attendee
- André CointreauSelf
- Susy DavidsonSelf
Stills
Themes
cookingbiography