by Bonnie J. Morris

Julia Revisited

Coming out as a Jew and a lesbian watching Lillian Hellman's classic story

There never was another movie like Julia. There never was a moment more vulnerable, dramatic, and romantic than that scene where Jane Fonda, as Lillian Hellman, tells Vanessa Redgrave “I love you, Julia,” and Vanessa Redgrave, as the heroine Julia, sits proud and tall and wild in Jane’s adoring arms around the campfire.

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