“Today, you have rock star chefs; Julia Child was the first,” says renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson (who you might recognize from the cooking reality show “Chopped“) at the beginning of the trailer for “Julia,” a new documentary from Sony Pictures Classics. Julia Child was the first famous cookbook author; her book Mastering the Art of French Cooking became a major hit, she helped further popularized The Joy Of Cooking book, which she famously said she learned to cook from, and then there was her many television shows that were a good showcase for her ebullient personality.
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And Child and her legacy have been celebrated before in film, most notably in Nora Ephron‘s 2008 film, “Julie & Julia,” which starred Meryl Streep as Julia Childs. But in this doc, directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen (the filmmakers behind the Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “RBG,” doc), “Julia” tells the “delicious life of America’s first food icon,” weaving a story not only about her joie de vivre for cooking and life but her impact as a trailblazing female figure in television, and unlikely star.
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JULIA tells the story of the legendary cookbook author and television superstar who changed the way Americans think about food, television, and even about women. Using never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouth-watering food cinematography, the film traces Julia Child’s surprising path, from her struggles to create and publish the revolutionary Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) which has sold more than 2.5 million copies to date, to her empowering story of a woman who found fame in her 50s, and her calling as an unlikely television sensation.
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Produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, “Julia” has no release date mentioned in the trailer, but typically when that’s the case with a trailer that arrives in the summer, that means it’s likely coming in the fall. Regardless, check out the trailer about the first lady of food below.