nathansnook

Julieta

At first impression, I let out an apathetic groan as soon as the titles rolled up. I was pissed off that Pedro made me go through an entire slog of a movie that centered around a woman and all of her regrets who, in efforts, is looking for her daughter, to no avail. Lukewarm. On the verge of a teary-eyed boredom. But then the film sunk in. This one is so special. So different. This one is so deep-rooted in realism. Sure, the melodrama is still there, but the actions and consequences that arise through this film are, in fact, the outcome of that of a real woman. I though throughout the years of our Almodóvar women, we cheer them on, root for them. Because of a ludicrous act or truth-bearing one-liner. But here, it's not that our protagonist is defeatist. Rather, she echoes all the regrets and guilt that run through a woman's mind ever since she was a little girl. The mother-daughter conflict is a mirror. And when you look into a mirror, you cannot escape all that reflects, all history, all sorrow. Almodóvar allows us, just this one time, to bear with reality. He places us low on the ground. Or if we're up (even by a two-story flat) we're looking down. We're even. Be it on the court when Julieta is looking at children play basketball. Be it level with the water in the bathtub. At a desk. Laying low. Hunched. She is so level with the earth that she is just like us. And that's what Pedro was trying to achieve here. Touching the ground just so we can level with his women, a way into his world. Mentionable: There's a scene in which the protagonist has sex with a man on a train, and the entire focus of the scene is captured in the moving train window, where the image of sex is leveled with the act itself. Two forms of intimacy bouncing off of each other to create a universality in desire and passion.

DamianSuarez

Julieta

El curioso Almodovar se presenta como orador en una historia Familiar vibrante y conmovedora,Que deja una eficaz actuación de Emma Suarez en un rol desgarrador y frustrante,Sin duda La madurez de Almodovar es más melancólico y dramática que cualquier otra cosa una conclusión inteligente para Su historia envolvente.