Story of weary office drone dragged from Manchester to the Costa Blanca after his brother goes missing aims for life-affirming, gets patience-trying
Once a festival fixture, Catalan writer-director Isabel Coixet’s latest presents as a post-Brexit olive branch, reminding us Brits that unspoilt sea, sand and self-improvement is only ever a few rebuilt bridges away. Yet it progresses with such eccentricity it seems unlikely to reverse anybody’s trajectory.
An especially downtrodden Timothy Spall plays Peter, wearied finance drone and keen meteorology buff whose small, palpably lonely life – measured out in nightly ginger snaps – faces redirection after his brother disappears in the Spanish resort of the title. Stranding this cold fish in sunny climes, Coixet is aiming for life-affirming. What follows ends up closer to frown-inducing, with patience-trying just round the corner.
Somewhere in here, there’s the germ of a workable idea: reclaiming the party-central destination as a place...
Once a festival fixture, Catalan writer-director Isabel Coixet’s latest presents as a post-Brexit olive branch, reminding us Brits that unspoilt sea, sand and self-improvement is only ever a few rebuilt bridges away. Yet it progresses with such eccentricity it seems unlikely to reverse anybody’s trajectory.
An especially downtrodden Timothy Spall plays Peter, wearied finance drone and keen meteorology buff whose small, palpably lonely life – measured out in nightly ginger snaps – faces redirection after his brother disappears in the Spanish resort of the title. Stranding this cold fish in sunny climes, Coixet is aiming for life-affirming. What follows ends up closer to frown-inducing, with patience-trying just round the corner.
Somewhere in here, there’s the germ of a workable idea: reclaiming the party-central destination as a place...
- 8/31/2022
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Eleonore Weber also on jury.
Spanish actress Rossy de Palma will head the Camera d’Or jury for the 75th Cannes Film Festival.
Alongside de Palma on the seven-person jury are Natasza Chroscicki, CEO of Arri France; cinematographer Jean-Claude Larrieu; filmmaker Eleonore Weber; journalist and film critic Olivier Pelisson; actor Samuel Le Bihan; and actor, writer and director Lucien Jean-Baptiste.
The jury will award the Camera d’Or for best first feature film from the official selection and parallel sections at the festival’s closing ceremony on Saturday, May 28.
de Palma is known for her regular collaborations with Pedro Almodovar,...
Spanish actress Rossy de Palma will head the Camera d’Or jury for the 75th Cannes Film Festival.
Alongside de Palma on the seven-person jury are Natasza Chroscicki, CEO of Arri France; cinematographer Jean-Claude Larrieu; filmmaker Eleonore Weber; journalist and film critic Olivier Pelisson; actor Samuel Le Bihan; and actor, writer and director Lucien Jean-Baptiste.
The jury will award the Camera d’Or for best first feature film from the official selection and parallel sections at the festival’s closing ceremony on Saturday, May 28.
de Palma is known for her regular collaborations with Pedro Almodovar,...
- 4/28/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Pedro Almodóvar bounces back with an absorbing saga of a mother and daughter told in an interesting style. A woman feels isolated, powerless, alone and anguished about what has happened in her life. Is any of it her fault? Or is all of it her fault? How do we hold relationships together, or do they fall apart no matter what we do? Highly rewarding dramas still exist; they don’t all go begging for Oscar nominations… just learn to read subtitles and you too can find out how the rest of the world lives.
Julieta
Blu-ray
Sony Pictures Classics
2016 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 99 min. / Street Date March 21, 2017 / 30.99
Starring: Adriana Ugarte, Emma Suárez, Michelle Jenner, Darío Grandinetti, Rossy de Palma,Susi Sá Sánchez, Joaquín Notario, Pilar Castro, Tómas del Estal.
Cinematography: Jean-Claude Larrieu
Film Editor: José Salcedo
Original Music: Alberto Iglesias
Written by Pedro Almodóvar based on three short stories by Alice Munro
Produced by Augustín Almodóvar,...
Julieta
Blu-ray
Sony Pictures Classics
2016 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 99 min. / Street Date March 21, 2017 / 30.99
Starring: Adriana Ugarte, Emma Suárez, Michelle Jenner, Darío Grandinetti, Rossy de Palma,Susi Sá Sánchez, Joaquín Notario, Pilar Castro, Tómas del Estal.
Cinematography: Jean-Claude Larrieu
Film Editor: José Salcedo
Original Music: Alberto Iglesias
Written by Pedro Almodóvar based on three short stories by Alice Munro
Produced by Augustín Almodóvar,...
- 3/28/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Left to right: Daniel Grao as Xoan and Adriana Ugarte as Earlier Julieta
@ El Deseo, in Pedro Almodovar’s Julieta. Photo by Manolo Pavón, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.
2016 certainly turned out to be a good year for films, particularly dramas, and Juleta is one the last of those to come to local screens. A nominee for Best Foreign Language Film in the upcoming Oscars, the Spanish-language Julieta is simply one of director Pedro Almodovar’s best – a visually lush, beautifully constructed, haunting mystery about love and loss, tied up with a satisfying but unexpected ending.
The acclaimed Spanish director’s latest film is a drama in a familiar vein for him, a tale of a woman – a mother – in crisis, yet Julieta is brilliantly fresh at the same time. Julieta (Emma Suarez) is a successful, beautiful woman living in Madrid, who is on the verge of leaving her home...
@ El Deseo, in Pedro Almodovar’s Julieta. Photo by Manolo Pavón, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.
2016 certainly turned out to be a good year for films, particularly dramas, and Juleta is one the last of those to come to local screens. A nominee for Best Foreign Language Film in the upcoming Oscars, the Spanish-language Julieta is simply one of director Pedro Almodovar’s best – a visually lush, beautifully constructed, haunting mystery about love and loss, tied up with a satisfying but unexpected ending.
The acclaimed Spanish director’s latest film is a drama in a familiar vein for him, a tale of a woman – a mother – in crisis, yet Julieta is brilliantly fresh at the same time. Julieta (Emma Suarez) is a successful, beautiful woman living in Madrid, who is on the verge of leaving her home...
- 1/27/2017
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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.
We open on blood red silk and yellow titles, a characteristically strong visual language we’ll gorge on for the rest of the movie. We find the titular woman (played here by Emma Suárez) packing up her worldly belongings. We...
We open on blood red silk and yellow titles, a characteristically strong visual language we’ll gorge on for the rest of the movie. We find the titular woman (played here by Emma Suárez) packing up her worldly belongings. We...
- 5/17/2016
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Manuel here. A new Pedro Almodóvar film is always cause for celebration. Yes, even when his last one (I'm So Excited) left many of us cold. Initially titled Silencio, the film is now called Julieta, making it only the second time he's named a film after its heroine. Let's hope Julieta makes for a more pleasant and engaging character than Kika, though.
The trailer is wonderfully oblique, with very little dialogue, so those of you who would otherwise need English subtitles can still bask in the visual sumptuousness of Jean-Claude Larrieu's photography. The D.P. is one of many newcomers to the Almodóvar family: both of his leading ladies, Emma Suárez and Adriana Ugarte (sharing the title role) are making their Almodrama debuts. But don't worry, actress Rossy de Palma and composer Alberto Iglesias are also onboard, giving Julieta the feel of vintage Pedro. Indeed, the visuals and what...
The trailer is wonderfully oblique, with very little dialogue, so those of you who would otherwise need English subtitles can still bask in the visual sumptuousness of Jean-Claude Larrieu's photography. The D.P. is one of many newcomers to the Almodóvar family: both of his leading ladies, Emma Suárez and Adriana Ugarte (sharing the title role) are making their Almodrama debuts. But don't worry, actress Rossy de Palma and composer Alberto Iglesias are also onboard, giving Julieta the feel of vintage Pedro. Indeed, the visuals and what...
- 2/8/2016
- by Manuel Betancourt
- FilmExperience
Cast revealed for Pedro Almodovar drama set in a “female universe” that will begin shooting in May.
Pedro Almodovar is to begin principal photography on his new drama Silence (Silencio) in Spain this May.
The film centres on Julieta, whose life in 2015 finds her on the verge of madness but is shown 30 years earlier during the 1980s at a more prosperous time in her life.
Spanish actresses Adriana Ugarte (TV series The Time In Between) and Emma Suárez (The Red Squirrel, The Mosquito Net) will play the younger and older Julieta respectively.
It will be produced by Madrid-based El Deseo, the company founded by Pedro and brother Agustin Almodovar. Agustin will produce alongside Ester Garcia.
Speaking to ScreenDaily, Agustin Almodovar said: “We are working with some of these talented actors for the first time, which makes it very exciting.
“The film is a return to drama based around women but it will also present new challenges.
“It...
Pedro Almodovar is to begin principal photography on his new drama Silence (Silencio) in Spain this May.
The film centres on Julieta, whose life in 2015 finds her on the verge of madness but is shown 30 years earlier during the 1980s at a more prosperous time in her life.
Spanish actresses Adriana Ugarte (TV series The Time In Between) and Emma Suárez (The Red Squirrel, The Mosquito Net) will play the younger and older Julieta respectively.
It will be produced by Madrid-based El Deseo, the company founded by Pedro and brother Agustin Almodovar. Agustin will produce alongside Ester Garcia.
Speaking to ScreenDaily, Agustin Almodovar said: “We are working with some of these talented actors for the first time, which makes it very exciting.
“The film is a return to drama based around women but it will also present new challenges.
“It...
- 3/27/2015
- by jsardafr@hotmail.com (Juan Sarda)
- ScreenDaily
The New: Chess, Trolls, and Privileged Parents Some great movies you might have missed during their recent arthouse runs are making their way to DVD, most notably the charming French import Queen to Play (Zeitgeist Video; now available), which stars Sandrine Bonnaire as a Corsican housekeeper whose life takes an unexpected turn when she discovers she has a flair for chess. We’ve seen this kind of middle-aged-blossoming story before, but Bonnaire and writer-director Caroline Bottaro (adapting a novel by Bertina Henrichs) give the tale some unexpected twists. The film also gets a boost from supporting player Kevin Kline — performing the entire role en français — and cinematographer Jean-Claude Larrieu (Elegy), who deserves some sort of kickback from the...
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- 8/17/2011
- by Movies.com
- Movies.com
The New: Chess, Trolls, and Privileged Parents Some great movies you might have missed during their recent arthouse runs are making their way to DVD, most notably the charming French import Queen to Play (Zeitgeist Video; now available), which stars Sandrine Bonnaire as a Corsican housekeeper whose life takes an unexpected turn when she discovers she has a flair for chess. We’ve seen this kind of middle-aged-blossoming story before, but Bonnaire and writer-director Caroline Bottaro (adapting a novel by Bertina Henrichs) give the tale some unexpected twists. The film also gets a boost from supporting player Kevin Kline — performing the entire role en français — and cinematographer Jean-Claude Larrieu (Elegy), who deserves some sort of kickback from the...
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- 8/17/2011
- by Movies.com
- Movies.com - Celebrity Gossip
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