Julieta (2016)
Pedro Almodóvar’s latest mutes its melodramatic tendencies to contrast the vibrancy of youth with the mounting regrets of aging.
Pedro Almodóvar’s latest mutes its melodramatic tendencies to contrast the vibrancy of youth with the mounting regrets of aging.
The funeral is a fertile ground for familial drama in the cinema. It’s easy to see why, what with the reunion of family members long separated by distance and/or estrangement born of malignant buried secrets unearthing those secrets in the heightened emotionality necessarily produced by grief and nostalgia. There are countless films in the ‘genre’…