
Julieta (Emma Suarez) is a middle-aged woman living in Madrid with her boyfriend Lorenzo. Both are going to move to Portugal when she casually runs into Bea, former best friend of her daughter Antia, who reveals that this one is living in Switzerland married and with three children. With the heart broken after 12 years of total absence of her daughter, Julieta cancels the journey to Portugal and she moves to her former building, in the hope that Antia someday communicates wit... (Full plot summary below)
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Julieta (Emma Suarez) is a middle-aged woman living in Madrid with her boyfriend Lorenzo. Both are going to move to Portugal when she casually runs into Bea, former best friend of her daughter Antia, who reveals that this one is living in Switzerland married and with three children. With the heart broken after 12 years of total absence of her daughter, Julieta cancels the journey to Portugal and she moves to her former building, in the hope that Antia someday communicates with her sending a letter. Alone with her thoughts, Julieta starts to write her memories to confront the pain of the events happened when she was a teenager (Adriana Ugarte) and met Xoan, a Galician fisherman. Falling in love with him, Julieta divides her time between the family, the job and the education of Antia until a fatal accident changes their lives. Slowly decaying in a depression, Julieta is helped by Antia and Bea, but one day Antia goes missing suddenly after a vacation with no clues about where to find her, leaving Julieta desperate to understand the reasons of her missing...
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| Washington PostAnn HornadayWhether by dint of his source material or his own maturity, the filmmaker has invested the surface sheen with tenderness and emotional depth. It’s no surprise that Julieta is marvelous to look at, but it possesses just as much substance as style. |
| Uncut Magazine [UK]Michael BonnerAfter a detour into high camp comedy with I'm So Excited!, Pedro Almodovar elegantly returns to his natural habitat: moody melodrama centred around notions of yearning, memory and loss and populated by strong female characters. |
| Georgia StraightKen EisnerJulieta is a deeply satisfying, down-to-earth tale of grief and quiet rediscovery. |
| leonardmaltin.comLeonard MaltinJulieta may not be one of Almodóvar's best efforts but it is still quite good, and that's no insult. It's a haunting story that's well worth seeing |
| Observer (UK)Mark KermodeThere is a Bergmanesque quality to Almodóvar's focus on Suárez's face in Julieta which speaks volumes about his journey from enfant terrible to elder statesman. |
| The SpectatorJasper ReesThe film's signature colour is red, which pulses on the screen like a hazard light... It's the colour of everything in this heartbreaking but hopeful film: rage, blood, heat, passion, danger, love. |
| East Bay ExpressKelly VanceGrab hold of it -- the movie, but of course the elusive experience of existence itself as well -- before it evaporates. |
| Sight and SoundJonathan RomneyAlmodvar's most sombre to date -it is to airline farce I'm So Excited! as Interiors was to Woody Allen's Bananas. |
| RTÉ (Ireland)Paddy KehoeSuffice to say that this is Almodóvar at the top of his game and Julieta must surely rank alongside the aforementioned works of genius. |
| Adelaide ReviewDavid 'Mad Dog' BradleyIt's his best, most mature and least deliberately (even irksomely) 'camp' effort in years. |