Director: Mike Newell
Genre: Drama/
Romance
Runtime: 117
minutes
Year: 2003
Starring: Julia
Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Julia Stiles, Dominic West, Ginnifer
Goodwin, Marcia Gay Harden, John Slattery, Topher Grace
I WATCHED THIS MOVIE FOR MY 2023 MOVIE CHALLENGE
WEEK 46: A MOVIE ABOUT A CLUB
Description: A
free-thinking art professor (Julia Roberts) teaches conservative 1950s Wellesly
girls to question their traditional social roles.
Review: A progressive
teacher encourages female students to get more out of life than just getting
married. Set in the 1950s, where at the very conservative Wellesley college for
women, art teacher Katherine Ann Watson starts her job. Katherine deviates from
all the strict rules.
“Mona Lisa Smile” has a lot to it. Besides the
attempts you see Katherine making to make her students think, you see their
lives of these students, as well as Katherine’s.
The central issue of choosing a career is not
presented in a one-sided wat. Although Katherine’s opinion prevails positively
throughout the film, “Mona Lisa Smile” also gives space to other ideas on
relationships, work and ambitions as a woman.
The cast is great. Julia Roberts, as Katherine, is
really good. Julia Stiles, Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Ginnifer Goodwin
are among the students and all these women have a different idea about life,
love and ambition. This movie is carried by women.
“Mona Lisa Smile” is a beautiful film about that was a
women’s life goal and what was expected of women in the 1950s. A film about
thinking differently, about life choices and about love.
Rating: 5/
5
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