Julia and Julia is a 1987 Italian drama film directed by Peter Del Monte. The screenplay by Silvia Napolitano, Sandro Petraglia, Joseph Minion, and Del Monte is based on a story by Napolitano.
Plot synopsis
Grief-stricken Julia, an American widowed on her wedding day when her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident, lives and works in Trieste. Six years later she returns to her apartment to discover a strange woman living there. Across the street, in the elegant home she and Paolo had purchased and which she never sold, she finds him and their young son, treating her as if they have been together all along. Paolo is a workaholic dedicated to his career as a ship designer and a restless Julia has taken British photographer Daniel as a lover.
Bewildered but happy to have her husband back, Julia tries to mend her marriage, but suddenly finds herself once again widowed and alone. As she slips back and forth between two different worlds, she finds it increasingly difficult to determine which is reality and which is fantasy and begins to question her sanity.
Production notes
The film debuted at the Venice Film Festival in 1987. A dubbed version was given limited release in the United States in January of the following year by Cinecom Pictures and earned $901,364. It was released in foreign markets as Giulia e Giulia