Eternal favorite Cannes Film Festival -in which never won the Palme Gold- manchego filmmaker presented his film Juliet , not sidestepped the controversy over offshore companies revealed for investigative journalism
CANNES.- Pedro Almodóvar presented almost all his films at Cannes, won awards in several categories (as director, screenwriter, for several of its interpreters) but the Palme d’Or. it is never the favorite “eternal”, but his obsession (enshrined in the main festival in the world) year is postponed after year Does that spell will break with Juliet? probably this melodrama romantic not located among the best titles of his long and magnificent career, but has multiple attributes and artistic findings that locate it undoubtedly among the leading candidates for this edition.
the director of Tie me , All about my mother and Talk to her I tell Juliet a mother-daughter story for three decades (there are segments They take place in 1985, 1998, 2003 and 2016 with a nonlinear narrative structure) and addresses the pain of the protagonist when her daughter leaves her with just 18 years and then not know anything more about it. The character of Juliet is played by two actresses (Adriana Ugarte between 25 and 40, Emma Suarez 40 onwards) and the cast appear, along with Rossy De Palma, Susi Sánchez and Inma Cuesta, Argentina’s Dario Grandinetti in a secondary role is of great importance at the beginning and the outcome of the plot.
epic and torn on the absence Drama, guilt and the search for redemption, Juliet which will be released in our country on June 23 – is a classic melodrama with several deaths (for illness, accidents or suicides), wrenching letters, travel on trains that refer to the cinema of Alfred Hitchcock and, of course, a design of extraordinary production in a valuable return of Almodóvar to feminine world with most new actresses. A renewal necessary for a recognizable universe.
The expectation for the film was as strong as it was by the statements of the director of Back and Women on the Verge of a nervous Breakdown . It was a British journalist who dared to mention the Panama Papers and this time the director’s not dodged the answer: “The question is too general, but I can only say that if the papers Panama were a movie, my brother Augustine and I just would be extras, nothing else. the problem is that in the Spanish press have treated us like absolute protagonists and that is very unfair. “
Regarding his obsession compete in Cannes, the creator of broken embraces and the skin I live said:.. “it’s more exciting for me and the media makes me feel alive also, do not think I even where Woody Allen or Steven Spielberg, who are always out of competition. I’m not a sacred cow “
Of course, also he spoke about his return to the movies with and about women: “The female universe is a place you’ll never leave me entirely This mother compared. the other is the most vulnerable, the weakest. theirs is a passive resistance. what I like about Alice Munro, three of whose stories is based Juliet, it is that it is a housewife who writes. I am fundamentally a love home “.
Finally, spoke about old age and present:” Old age is not a disease but a slaughter, says Philip Roth, and I very much agree never could shoot this movie before. . it is true that I miss my youth, those eighties. I had to bet on health, decision needed to continue working but sad decision. And that feeling of sadness pervades my films of this decade. “
intense day of the official competition was completed with two other films that had very opposite receptions: applause for Aquarius , the second feature Kleber Mendonça Filho of Brazil with an extraordinary performance of the legendary Sonia Braga; and boos (in press function) for the French Olivier Assayas Personal Shopper , ghost movie with Kristen Stewart. The contracaras an always exciting (and passionate) festival like Cannes
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