Miss Julie

Aroview: The puritan 19th century Swedish setting of August Strindberg's one-act play yields dramatic dividends in its fraught affair between flighty mistress-of-the-house Saffron Burrows and her glowering footman Peter Mullan (MY NAME IS JOE). Circling the duologue with three handheld cameras, dir. Figgis generates a DOGMA 95-style intensity, with the benefit of working from a classic, psychologically dense text.