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Julieta

2016

Pedro Almodóvar

Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grao, Inma Cuesta ...

6.3

18,494

Drama Julieta lives in Madrid and has just lost her husband Xoan. Her daughter, Antía, has just turned 18 and decides to run away. Julieta searches by all means to find her, but the only thing she discovers is how little she knows her daughter... “Silence’ talks about inevitable destiny, a guilt complex, the unfathomable mystery which makes us abandon the ones we loves, wiping them out of our life as if they had never meant anything to us. ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"The Spanish auteur offers up his most sincere drama (...) While 'Julieta' represents a welcome return to the female-centric storytelling (...) it is far from this reformed renegade’s strongest or most entertaining work."	NEU
United States	Ann Hornaday Chicago Tribune	"A wash in color, feminine psychodrama and heightened emotion, 'Julieta' is a classic Almodovar film, or, more accurately, a classicized version of the Almodovar films his fans have come to adore (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Suárez suffers with a dignity reminiscent of Bette Davis and other great screen heroines of the past (...) A worthy and welcome addition to his canon"	POS
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"Almodovar keeps the aura of mystery on a tightwire until the final frame, the viewer always a step behind."	POS
United States	Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"The clash between the stoical sorrowing of Munro’s characters and the director’s more unembarrassed instincts is exactly what tenses the tale and makes it so hard to forget."	POS
United States	Godfrey Cheshire rogerebert.com	"Almodóvar’s 20th feature and his best, in my view, since “Volver” a decade ago, is a film of such quietly assured mastery that it reminds you American cinema today has virtually no one comparable to him. Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Intriguing, minor work (...) This is not as richly compelling as other Almodóvar films, but it’s a fluent and engaging work (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"It’s a solid enough assembly to satisfy the director’s most passionate devotees worldwide (...) However, less invested viewers may feel nonplussed by the script’s meandering, unresolved mysteries, abrupt and untidily managed narrative bombshells, and quizzically motivated characters."	NEU
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"There's not a scene in this film in which there is not both something to see and an acting moment to savor, as well as some nuance or implication or suggestion to ponder."	POS

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