Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal. The new art history professor has some unusual methods of instruction, but the students of Wellesley College in 1953 welcome the opportunity to expand their knowledge, years before their time. A remarkable film that captures the spirit of an unforgettable time with beauty and subtlety. 2003/color/119 min/PG-13/widescreen.Julia Roberts’s command of the screen is so effortless, it’s easy for moviegoers to take her for granted–but we shouldn’t. Mona Lisa Smile–about a noncomformist teacher at a private school who encourages students to pursue their individuality–is pretty much an all-girls version of Dead Poets Society that mixes ’50s fashions with ’70s feminist thought. However, its lack of ambition doesn’t diminish the talent that’s gone into it: The writing and directing are well-honed and skillful; the actors–a talent-studded cast featuring Marcia Gay Harden, Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Julia Stiles, and Juliet Stevenson–are uniformly excellent. But without question, Mona Lisa Smile rides on Roberts’s shoulders and she carries it with ease. She’s possibly the only contemporary actor who simply owns a movie the way Bette Davis, Jean Arthur, or Claudette Colbert once did, radiating a engaging mix of intelligence, drive, and emotional warmth that cannot be matched. –Bret Fetzer
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you’ve come a long way, baby Fresh out of graduate school in California, Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts) lands her dream job: Art History professor at Wellesley College, an exclusive all-girl private school in Massachusetts.
THOSE FIFTIES WOMEN… My daughter, who had seen this film and loved it, suggested that we watch it together. I agreed and was very glad I did so, as I really enjoyed this bittersweet film. It is a well-acted, well-directed effort about a free-thinking art history professor, Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), who in the nineteen fifties, lacking Ivy League credentials, manages, through a twist of fate, to get a berth as a professor at traditional and conservative Wellesley College. It is here that she hopes to find herself instructing the leaders of tomorrow.