If you care for the films of Pedro Almodóvar — and I’m sure that’s many of you — his newest picture, Julieta, will likely leave you satisfied. As we said at Cannes, “A woman recalls the pivotal moments of her adult life in Julieta, the latest film from Pedro Almodóvar and his fifth to screen in competition here in Cannes. It’s adapted from a series of short stories of Canadian Nobel prize-winning author Alice Munro and marks a return to the female-centric dramas with which the director made his name, having recently tried his hand at musical (I’m So Excited) and psychological horror (The Skin I Live In). It’s charmingly self-aware in its use of kitsch and melodrama — almost to the point of self-parody — and, while small in scope, it’s also one of his lusher and leaner offerings.”
With a release set for December, we now have a domestic trailer that gives us a sense of the large ensemble in the story that spans thirty years.
See the preview below:
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.
Julieta begins its U.S. run on December 21.