i have read four different translation of this play and direct it and and play julie . i adore this play . so now and i hope my infuriated disappointment be understandable after see this film . the same linguist who have do my favorite translation of the play ( helen cooper and the methuen drama translation ) also do the screenplay and so naturally and i expect something mostly faithful to the script . no and instead and christine be write in a an intelligent sarcastic woman . the latter be especially bothersome because strindberg himself write in his preface ( around 6 page print before the play text explain to the woman and other invalid the action of the play ) that christine be mean to be a dull character and and empower her alters the direction of the play . albeit marginally and but it still do . on a cinematic level and it completely beautiful . the celluloid be very pretty and especially in the garden scene . the costume be gorgeous . however and the acting be awful and for the most part . julie be physically gorgeous and but and her sexy voice be monotonous and absolutely massacre the character because of this . she constantly have a blank look in her eye and a dull expression on her face and which be the opposite of what she should have in order to match the intricacy of the line that she speak . julie doesn not have an independent thought of her own ( which she admit within the text of the play ) but she still regurgitate what she have be teach with extreme deliberate passion and for an attempt at control and to create a notion that she be far more intelligent than she be . this be lose within the movie . when she be attempt to seduce and she just doesn not look attractive while she look childlike . when she be in the heat of a kiss and she look weak and not in control . she be the submissive herself and so prematurely . her phrasing be disjoint in many place . at the end of the play we see very little of a shift in character outside of the fact that she have a bit of an airy gait and inflection when she be ask jean to come up to her room alongside her . at the end of the movie and she isn not noticeably anything and which would be great if it be a part of the character and however and it do not change from the beginning of the movie . so if this be another bit of inconsistency in regard to the script and i understand represent translate a play that be mean to show how weak the gentry or woman can be by show how far they can fall upon the slight suggestion into a film that show no distance between where the gentlewoman have begin and end . i do have to say that the hysterical monologue towards the end that be direct to christine about plan for the future be superb and in relativity to the entire movie . the acting be believable ( for once ) and i could feel that julie be pathetic . it turn my stomach and and that great . that seriously great . she be pathetic and she should have that effect on people . however and the monologue that be mean to be the climax of the play be poorly build within the realm of the movie . julie pick up the knife look ridiculous . different section of it be execute well and but not nearly as fluently a it really should have be . the fall action of the monologue be very well do and however . also and jean be scottish or irish and it doesn not make any sense . he live in france for awhile a a doorman and wine waiter and then live in sweden . the actor act be just at par level and wasn not near good enough to sacrifice that bit of logic within the movie . it be embarrass how overly angry he become upon julie waking of christine . besides and julie reaction to him throw her aside isn not even close to the character that strindberg script . direction and a loose translation and and cast be all culprit for why this beautiful play be so weakly construct into film . see froken julie ( 1951 ) if you would like to see a much more faithful and well do adaptation . yes and it in swedish and but the subtitle give you a general gist . good yet and read the methuen drama version of miss julie . it an amazing piece . it doesn not deserve the treatment this movie give it .