【英语生活】夏季电影预告：《美食、祈祷和恋爱》

Eat Pray Love

Aug. 13

The Pitch: Julia Roberts seeks happiness. A successful but bored New Yorker pursues culinary perfection in Italy, journeys to an Indian ashram in search of religious enlightenment and explores romance on the beaches of Bali (with Javier Bardem) as the ultimate synthesis of the physical and spiritual.

The Prospects: The success of movies like 'Sex and the City' in 2008 and 'Julie and Julia' last summer has studios feeling optimistic about the summer prospects of female-centered movies. This movie also has the Oprah factor going for it: Ms. Winfrey endorsed this film's source, Elizabeth Gilbert's hit 2006 memoir. Producer Dede Gardner expects to pull in men, too, although current conventional wisdom in Hollywood says adult dramas are passe, based on the mixed performance of movies like last year's 'State of Play' and 'Duplicity' (which also starred Ms. Roberts).

《美食、祈祷和恋爱》(Eat Pray Love)

北美上映时间：8月13日

Reuters本片主演朱莉娅•罗伯茨看点：朱莉娅•罗伯茨(Julia Roberts)追求幸福之旅。一个事业有成而自觉无聊的纽约人到意大利追求美食极至，到印度的静休处寻找宗教启迪，在巴厘岛的海滩上与哈维尔•巴登(Javier Bardem)一同探寻浪漫，作为肉体和精神的终极合一。

预期：2008年《欲望都市》(Sex and the City)和去年夏季《美味关系》(Julie and Julia)等电影的成功让制片公司看好以女性为主题的夏季电影。本片还有奥普拉(Winfrey Oprah)因素在起作用：奥普拉极力推荐本片的原着、伊莉莎白•吉尔伯特(Elizabeth Gilbert)2006年的畅销回忆录。制片人戴德•加德纳(Dede Gardner)预计本片也会吸引男性观众，不过好莱坞当下的普遍看法是，成年人的影片已经过时，从去年的《国家要案》(State of Play)和《口是心非》(Duplicity)等影片参差不齐的表现即可见一斑。（《口是心非》也是由罗伯茨主演的。）