Opened 12/21/16 in the US
Viewed Sunday evening, Feb. 12, 2017 at Carlisle Theater, Downtown Carlisle
IMBd: 7.1/10
IMBd: 7.1/10
RT Critic: 84 Audience: 75
Critic's Consensus:
Critic's Consensus:
Cag: 4.5 Liked it a lot, excellent movie
Directed by Pedro Almodovar
El Desio
In Spanish with subtitles
My comments: What a very sad moivie! set in Madrid with occasional forays to the countryside/seaside, and ultra-depressed woman in her 50s writes a journal to her estranged daughter, who has been gone from her life for 12 years. Two different actresses play the 25-year-old and the 55-year-old, and they are both terrific. I always love getting into reading the subtitles as I try to take in everything that is going on in the scene. It uses a lot of different parts of my brain, and I'm glad to see I'm stil up to it, ha ha! This is a really good movie, but the overwhelming sadness/depression (it's everywhere, within every relationship in the story!) takes the rating down just a little bit for me.
RT/ IMDb Summary: (RT) After a chance meeting, middle-aged Julieta (Emma Suarez) learns that her long-lost daughter has resurfaced in Madrid. This begins a painful reflection by Julieta into her checkered past, flashing back to the moments of pain that defined her current life. (IMDb) Julieta lives in Madrid with her daughter Antía. They both suffer in silence over the loss of Xoan, Antía's father and Julieta's husband. But at times grief doesn't bring people closer, it drives them apart. When Antía turns eighteen she abandons her mother, without a word of explanation. Julieta looks for her in every possible way, but all she discovers is how little she knows of her daughter.
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