Julieta (2016) Pedro Almodovar
Mothers and daughters, there is nothing more loving or destructive.
I wasn’t expecting this story to affect me the way it did. I don’t know why, because Almodovar is one of my favorite directors and knows how to show emotion. Julieta (2016) is a complex story, with sumptuous visuals. Julieta meets Xoan on a train and they have a brief but intense encounter. She seeks him out six months later to tell him she is pregnant and finds that his wife has just died. They have a happy life together until a storm ravages Xoan’s fishing boat, and his body is washed up on shore. Julieta and her daughter, Antia, move to Madrid to try and find a way forward, but Julieta cannot seem to let go. When Antia then leaves to find her own path, she severs all ties and leave her mother to, yet again, pick up the pieces. Mothers and daughters, there is nothing more loving or destructive.
If you want more Almodóvar, continue with All About My Mother. It’s another beautiful, complicated story about women trying to put their lives back together after unimaginable loss, told in that unmistakable Almodóvar world. Read the review →
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