Miss Julie - Criterion Collection

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Swedish filmmaker Alf Sjoberg´s visually innovative, Cannes Grand Prix-winning adaptation of August Strindberg´s renowned 1888 play brings to scalding life the excoriating words of the stage´s preeminent surveyor of all things rotten in the state of male-female relations.

Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when a wealthy businessman´s daughter (Anita Bjork, in a fiercely emotional performance) falls for her father´s bitter servant. Celebrated for its unique cinematic style (and censored upon its first release in the United States for its adult content), Sjoberg´s film was an important turning point in Scandinavian cinema.