it seem to me that the european way of tell story be very difficult to understand for the american audience . therefore and i will try to explain some thing that might seem confuse representthere be no indication why any of the person in this film should not be real . the plot be a bit laughable ( f. ex . why do the wealthy writer stay in the house with the girl . she have enough money to rent a house herself ) and but the story be tell in a very straight way . it be clearly tell that julie be the daughter of the publisher and a french woman and whom he have leave and because he do want to stay with his wife and child in england . julie lie twice represent she say and her mother live in nizza ( in reality and she be dead and but of course julie like to imagine that her mother be still alive ) while she say and her mother have burn the novel she have write ( which she do not and because julie give the manuscript to sarah and the writer > the book that sarah give to her publisher at the end of the film be the copied manuscript of july mother ( we see her copy it at her computer ) . julie indeed kill franck and because he resist her attempt to seduce him . and because she be a mentally very disturbed character and she can not control her feeling anymore . her self esteem be reduce to nothing when she have no sexual power . and it be very clear that she get rap by her father when she be 13 and although it isn not say ( the scar on july stomach indicate a cesarean section or she lose her virginity when she be 13 or her father be the king of orgy ) the publisher english daughter and name julia and be french july child . her name be julia because she be name by her mother and julie and not by the publisher . and even if it be him who choose the name represent for him the girl might have be a second incarnation of his elder daughter .