Julieta (2016)
Country: SP
Technical: col 99m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Adriana Ugarte, Emma Suárez, Daniel Grao, Darío Grandinetti, Rossy de Palma
Synopsis:
A woman prepares to leave Madrid for good with her lover, until news of her long lost daughter causes her to change her mind and confront the past once and for all.
Review:
A return to form for the writer-director, after the endearing but somewhat chaotic Los amantes pasajeros. This story of a mother's love inevitably recalls All about My Mother and Volver, though comparisons in such a consistent body of work are to an extent gratuitous. In a breathlessly concentrated running time, Almodóvar takes us through seamlessly woven flashbacks in a narrative packed with characters and incident; here again he reminds one of a more impassioned, less frothy Woody Allen. Less obvious, too. With contributions from his composer (Iglesias) and cinematographer (newcomer Larrieu effortlessly reproduces the familiar sumptuous colour scheme of Sirk and Minnelli), we are never in doubt of a master orchestrator delivering work of substance. Here he explores themes of guilt, grief and fatal coincidence as if afresh, and his actors are totally in tune with that minor key he has made his own.
Country: SP
Technical: col 99m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Adriana Ugarte, Emma Suárez, Daniel Grao, Darío Grandinetti, Rossy de Palma
Synopsis:
A woman prepares to leave Madrid for good with her lover, until news of her long lost daughter causes her to change her mind and confront the past once and for all.
Review:
A return to form for the writer-director, after the endearing but somewhat chaotic Los amantes pasajeros. This story of a mother's love inevitably recalls All about My Mother and Volver, though comparisons in such a consistent body of work are to an extent gratuitous. In a breathlessly concentrated running time, Almodóvar takes us through seamlessly woven flashbacks in a narrative packed with characters and incident; here again he reminds one of a more impassioned, less frothy Woody Allen. Less obvious, too. With contributions from his composer (Iglesias) and cinematographer (newcomer Larrieu effortlessly reproduces the familiar sumptuous colour scheme of Sirk and Minnelli), we are never in doubt of a master orchestrator delivering work of substance. Here he explores themes of guilt, grief and fatal coincidence as if afresh, and his actors are totally in tune with that minor key he has made his own.
Country: SP
Technical: col 99m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Adriana Ugarte, Emma Suárez, Daniel Grao, Darío Grandinetti, Rossy de Palma
Synopsis:
A woman prepares to leave Madrid for good with her lover, until news of her long lost daughter causes her to change her mind and confront the past once and for all.
Review:
A return to form for the writer-director, after the endearing but somewhat chaotic Los amantes pasajeros. This story of a mother's love inevitably recalls All about My Mother and Volver, though comparisons in such a consistent body of work are to an extent gratuitous. In a breathlessly concentrated running time, Almodóvar takes us through seamlessly woven flashbacks in a narrative packed with characters and incident; here again he reminds one of a more impassioned, less frothy Woody Allen. Less obvious, too. With contributions from his composer (Iglesias) and cinematographer (newcomer Larrieu effortlessly reproduces the familiar sumptuous colour scheme of Sirk and Minnelli), we are never in doubt of a master orchestrator delivering work of substance. Here he explores themes of guilt, grief and fatal coincidence as if afresh, and his actors are totally in tune with that minor key he has made his own.