Review of Julieta (2016) by Dave P — 13 Jan 2017

Weight, guilt, loss, and feminine passion.

This review of Julieta (2016) was written by Dave P on 13 Jan 2017.

Julieta has generally received positive reviews.

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By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 13 Apr 2017

Julieta may not be top-tier Almodovar, but a collaboration between him and Munro, two artists who have spent their lives going deep into the…

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By Matt C (2,668) on 13 Feb 2017

In the world of storytelling, melodrama is so often used as a bad word, implying hackneyed dialogue and excessive performances to compliment…

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By Louise D (267) on 17 Mar 2017

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The Spanish director's 20th feature film again captived by the figures of Almadovar woman and Almadovar red…

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By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 17 Oct 2017

There's an undeniable emotional intensity to what eventually becomes an exploration of guilt, but it's also overwritten…

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By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 09 Mar 2017

This is nothing if not an odd movie to encourage people to see. It's a graft of artistic forms, one atop another, that doesn't really take…

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By Rania Richardson (23) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 04 Dec 2018

Is this a new direction for Pedro Almodóvar, who has made excess the hallmark of his long career…

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By A.j. Goldmann (3) for The Spectator (1,162) on 27 Mar 2017

Almodóvar has made some powerful melodramas before, but here, working with a new crop of actors and unusually wishy-washy material, he doesn't…

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By Micheal Compton (319) for Bowling Green Daily News (319) on 02 Nov 2018

Julieta is paced quite well -- with Almodóvar slowly putting the pieces to this puzzle together…

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