Julieta finds Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her, All About My Mother, Volver) in austere, reflective mode. It’s based on three short stories by the Nobel Prize-winning writer Alice Munro (published online here by the New Yorker) which follow the same character.
In 2015, Julieta is a teacher of fifty-five. She writes a long letter to her daughter Antía, explaining the secrets she has kept from her over the last 30 years. But when she finishes her confession, she doesn’t know where to post it, because they have been estranged since Antía left her at the age of 18.
Starring Emma Suárez and Adriana Ugarte as the younger and older Julieta, this promises to be an eloquent and richly resonant film, with Almodóvar eschewing the energetic farce of his last release – I’m So Excited – in favour of a return to his great subject; the emotional terrain and interior lives of women.