The latest from Spanish director Pedro Almodรณvar, “Julieta” finds its inspiration in a trio of connected short stories by author Alice Munro that center around the titular woman as she reflects on her life and her relationship with her long-lost daughter, Antรญa. The story is a Douglas Sirk melodrama by way of a Hitchcockian thriller, […]
Pedro Almodovar
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“I’m So Excited”
With a hard-earned reputation for flirting with outrageous and comical interpretations of sex, the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar demonstrates in his new movie, “I’m So Excited,” that the outrageousness and the comedy, without wit and invention, cannot sustain an entire film. A late work in a reasonably prolific and quite successful career, the picture seems […]
