Julia Roberts goes Foreign Beauty
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/movies/14JULIA.html?oref=login wrote:
Transporting Beauty
Can you imagine Julia Roberts as a foreign film actress? She is one, sort of, in "Closer," a new Mike Nichols movie based on an English play, which opens next month. These photographs take her further away  to the French and Italian movies of the 1960's.
"There was always a relentless effort in American cinema to clean up American women on-screen as opposed to their European sisters, who could remain more dissolute. There's been a line of Hollywood stars back to Greer Garson, Grace Kelly and Doris Day. A lot of the younger actresses have inherited that mantle of being decent, not being Frances Farmer, which is sort of what these pictures of Julia court. She's not dressed for going out; she's not dressed for anyone seeing her. These are really haunting pictures. It moves her image in a direction that can speak to me as a connoisseur of New Wave cinema or of the more outsize beauties of the 50's or 60's. They gave me a little deja vu in a way that was more personal almost than historical. When I saw that first one, I said, 'Oh, I know her.' Not as Julia Roberts, not as Sophia Loren or Jeanne Moreau, but there was a kind of uncanny familiarity." Wayne Koestenbaum, poet and writer
If this is the Mike Nichols that did Angels in America, Postcards from the Edge, Silkwood, The Graduate, and Who;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Than this movie is going to be incredible! Here are some pics of Julia...
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