Julieta
First screened in September 2016
Director: Pedro Almodóvar. Cast: Adriana Ugarte, Emma Suárez, Daniel Grao, Darío Grandinetti, Inma Cuesta, Rossy de Palma, Blanca Parés, Priscilla Delgado, Michelle Jenner, Pilar Castro, Agustín Almodóvar, Joaquín Notario, Marisa Paredes, Mariam Bachir, Nathalie Poza, Tomás del Estal, Jorge Pobes, Bimba Bosé, Esther García. Screenplay: Pedro Almodóvar (based on the stories "Chance," "Soon," and "Silence" by Alice Munro). Twitter Capsule:
A wave and a reef—feelings roll in startlingly deep surges but themes, motives, and style are intricate, sprawling, alive.
Second Capsule:
Just saw Julieta and Things to Come back-to-back in a cinema that played the score from Carol in the darkness before each one started...
Third Capsule:
In related news, I am no longer a person but a whorling cloud of free-radical particles, each emitting a halo and hum of actressy devotion.
VOR:④
Almodóvar's style often crystallizes his stories into service of an aesthetic vision. Here, he uses color, style, and form to make the story slippery, not to organize it.
