cinemajesty Dearest Almodóvar:(I write this open letter out of courtesy in English.) Rocking the world of colors since the early 1980s with full frontal confrontations between the sexes. "Julieta" has become no exemption, yet the wild years with "Matador" (1986) or "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" (1989) seem harder and harder to be of exposure in your recent pictures. Nature as a destructive force as the bull-attack in "Talk To Her" (2002), marking the peak of a director/writer's career, which follows bio-metric cycles as life itself connected with an ocean's tide, calmness bringing shots in "Julieta". The 2016 version of an "Almodóvar Picture" gets between the gap of generations, entangles their emotions, first being a creek to jump over, nowadays a gorge with miles and miles to go around or building an cliff-hanging hard-wire of life-threatening proportions between children and their parents. As usual you keep a tight grip of your cast, which seems to the very last supporting role in care-taking hands. Yet "Julieta" strikes no nerves anymore as "The Skin I Live In" (2011) did with mask-ripping forces; tensions between the characters kept to an minimum, making the picture a pleasant one-time watch of your standard color balance in production design, leaving me wishing for another breakthrough cinematographic action as cameras hitting asphalt in "All About My Mother" (1999).Sincerely Yours,Felix Alexander Dausend

gradyharp Fate and mother/daughter relationships Pedro Almodóvar crowns his 30 year career as one of our most creative, controversial and brilliant cinematic artists with this his twentieth film – JULIETA – based on three short stories by Alice Munro as adapted for the screen by Almodóvar. Not only is the story mesmerizing and at times challenging to keep up with the director's ideas, it displays a brilliant cast of Spanish actors in one of the most impressive films of the past year. One of the tricky directorial decisions is to employ two actresses to play the same character – one as the younger Julieta and one as the more mature Julieta. The manner in which Almodóvar transitions these two aspects of the personality of Julieta (as well as the stunning performances by the two actresses – Emma Suárez and Adriana Ugarte) is just one of the miracles of this film.Briefly, after a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events about her stranded daughter. But more specifically, Julieta (Emma Suárez) is a middle-aged woman living in Madrid with her boyfriend Lorenzo (Dario Grandinetti). They plan to move to Portugal when Julieta encounters Bea (Michelle Jenner), former best friend of her daughter Antia (Priscilla Delgado then Blanca Parés), who reveals that Antia is living in Switzerland and is married and with three children. With the heart broken after 12 years of total absence of her daughter, Julieta cancels the journey to Portugal and she moves to her former building, in the hope that Antia someday communicates with her sending a letter. Alone with her thoughts, Julieta starts to write her memories to confront the pain of the events happened when she was a teenager (Adriana Ugarte) and met Xoan (Daniel Grao), a Galician fisherman. Falling in love with him, Julieta divides her time between the family, the job and the education of Antia until a fatal accident changes their lives: Xoan is drowned at sea during a brutal storm. Slowly decaying in a depression, Julieta is helped by Antia and Bea, but one day Antia goes missing suddenly after a vacation with no clues about where to find her, leaving Julieta desperate to understand the reasons of her missing and her search leads to self discovery and acceptance of buried secrets – her own relationship with her mother and the kinship between like mother who happen to be mother/daughter. The uniformly excellent cast includes the Almodóvar constant, Rossy de Palma, whose presence is a meaningful driver to the story. The musical score is by Alberto Iglesas and the lush cinematography is the work of Jean-Claude Larrieu. But the crown belongs to Pedro Almodóvar – another brilliant masterpiece.

texshelters "Julieta": The Ending DisappointsSPOILER! It's not that the ending to "Julieta" is ambiguous, as in "Inception" or "Bladerunner." And it's not that the climax occurred and we still don't know what's going to happen with the main character, whether the antagonist in "No Country for Old Men" or the protagonists in "The Graduate." The problem with "Julieta" is that Almodóvar sets up a climax and the film ends before we get there. It not only lacks a climax or ending, the film is an anti-climax. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH5_4osOZK8It's a beautiful film and the dialogue is terse and dynamic. The set up is interesting and mysterious. We can't wait to see what happens when Julieta meets her estranged daughter who disappeared years earlier. Just as Julieta is driving to see her daughter at the address her daughter had mailed her, we see the ending title on the screen: JULIETA. You suck, Pedro Almodóvar, you suck big time! This anti-climax is a major fail and makes what was a good film into a terrible film. Did the director run out of ideas? Was it writer's block? Did he run out of funding or time? Or, what I believe, he's too clever for his film's good and decided to leave it. Whatever the reason, the lack of resolution to "Julieta" damages the movie beyond repair. The film didn't need to resolve itself, it needed to end in a way that was acceptable. Instead, her lover reads the last line of the film, not Julieta stating something enigmatic. The film is called Julieta, and she doesn't even have the last line. Sad. Rating: Rent it. It looks good and the dialogue is great. Just remember, you can turn it off anytime, since it won't get to an ending. Peace, Tex Shelters

adonis98-743-186503 After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events about her stranded daughter. I know that Julieta is a romantic and dramatic tale and sure it's trying to be that thing but the overall story for me at least felt a bit dull and even the 2 leading women that play the mother and daughter just don't have an interesting story as well. Also this does seem like a Pedro Almodóvar movie because here and there it's bit cheesy and over the top and sure the overall plot might sound a bit interesting but the whole film was just very disappointing and i really wanted to like this but i just couldn't (3/10)