I have a patchy relationship with Pedro Almodóvar. From loving his early films, I lost my way with some of his more recent dry melodramas, like Julieta. He won me back though with Pain and Glory and so I was tentatively excited to see his latest.
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This Spanish historical drama directed by Patricia Font was a recommendation by a dear friend and it was only one session a day so I’m sure it will disappear from cinemas soon.
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I feel like there should be a single word or term for films like this, that provoke intense emotion and are beautiful but are telling you something fundamentally tragic and melancholic about the world. I’ve seen a few MIFF films that would fit this. Maybe bittersweet, but it feels more profound than that. Tristesse. Dolorous.
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I was a bit trepidatious about seeing Almodóvar’s latest (in 2019 – it’s taken me a while to post this!).
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Carlota Pereda gives us a delicious revenge movie that expands the story from her 2018 short film.
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Victor Erice’s classic film about childhood and Spain’s political turmoil is transcendent film making.
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Having ‘the water inside’ might spell doom or freedom in this meditative Spanish drama.
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Pedro Almodóvar gives us two tenuously connected stories, worth watching for the powerful performances of Penélope Cruz and newcomer Milena Smit.
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This artful satire by writer/director/star Amalia Ulman almost works but I couldn’t help feeling I was missing the point.
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A worthy but oddly unsatisfying look at the brutal government response to worker strikes in the Basque region of Spain in the 70s. Continue reading
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