Author: Julia Roberts

Format: AC-3

Release Date: 09-03-2004

Details: Product Description Academy Award(r)-winner Julia Roberts (Best Actress in a Leading Role, Erin Brockovich, 2000) leads an all-star cast featuring Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhall and Marcia Gay Harden. MONA LISA SMILE is a funny, inspiring and uplifting film about an art history professor with a lot to teach about life and much to learn about romance. Amazon.ca After making films as different as Four weddings and a funeral or Donnie Brasco, Mike Newell continues his eclectic journey with Le Sourire de Mona Lisa, a look at the beginnings of feminism in the 1950s in America. In 1953, Katherine Watson, a young graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), accepted a position as professor of art history at Wellesley College, a conservative institution where young girls from good families were trained to become perfect mothers and wives. Miss Watson is convinced that she will succeed in opening up new horizons to her students by encouraging them to think for themselves. Even if the scenario of the Smile of Mona Lisa made fear a simple copy pasted to the feminine of that of the Circle of the disappeared poets, the result proves however original. The young professor (a Julia Roberts not always in tune) does not seek to galvanize the spirit of her troops (Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles and Maggie Gyllenhaal in the lead) by launching catchy slogans, but rather to accompany them on the way of emancipation. Without being too simplistic, the film then makes us feel the weight of the conventions that these women had to experience. Although multiplying the secondary stories with more or less asserted usefulness, and not quite knowing how to find an adequate rhythm, Le Sourire de Mona Lisa has the merit of painting a fairly accurate portrait of this generation of women of the 1950s to whom docility was learned as a primary virtue. – Helen Faradji.

UPC: 043396100756

EAN: 0043396100756

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood