Miss Julie is a 2014 period drama film written and directed by Liv Ullmann, based on the 1888 play of the same name by August Strindberg and starring Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton.

We jump to Midsummer Night 1890, where the same manor is deserted, save for three individuals; Kathleen the cook (Samantha Morton), John the valet (Colin Farrell) and Miss Julie (Jessica Chastain), the Baron's daughter.

Kathleen takes her leave to look after Miss Julie's suffering dog, while the young aristocrat, who appears to be in a mischievous sort of mood, traps John.

John confesses that he's been in love with her since he first laid eyes on her as a child, but the next moment sees him quick to remind her of their vastly different positions in the class system.

As a shattered Miss Julie begins showing signs of psychosis, John orders her to break into her father's desk and steal all of his money.

The last image seen before the credits is of Miss Julie lying dead by the brook with the stolen money in a bag around her neck, having slit her wrist with John's straight razor.

In a change of setting from the original Sweden of the play, the film was shot at Castle Coole, a late 18th-century country mansion in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

The website's critical consensus states, "Miss Julie definitely gives Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell room to shine, but neglects to leave them a solid enough setting to augment their efforts".

[7][12][13] Film Journal International noted several issues with the directing, such as the "unnecessary and squishy soft-focus flashbacks" and the "tacky shock effect" of the bird's death.

It claimed the incorporation of classical music dipped the experience in "aural 'class' that is merely more distancing for the viewer", and that the overuse of close-up shots led the source material to not "breathe and bloom of its own dramatic accord".

[14] Brady praised the choice of filming location, Castle Coole, "an impeccable neo-classical building, that lends an aura of airlessness and artefact to a work that finds these same flaws in the social order.

[15][13] Explained O'Mailey, "The claustrophobia of the kitchen is overwhelming in the film, and the shots of Miss Julie wandering through the manor by herself, her posture broken and stiff, her dress falling off her shoulder, give us a welcome (and yet rivetingly disturbing) change of scene.