Julieta (2016)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Julieta |
| Original title | Julieta |
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| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 6 |
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| Director | Pedro Almodovar |
| script | Pedro Almodovar |
| production |
Agustín Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar Esther García |
| music | Alberto Iglesias |
| camera | Jean-Claude Larrieu |
| cut | José Salcedo |
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Julieta is a melodrama of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar from the year 2016 . The production based on a script by Almodóvar is loosely based on three short stories by the Canadian writer Alice Munro , which appeared in her Tricks collection in 2004 . The film tells the three decades long story of the eponymous title character, played by Adriana Ugarte and Emma Suárez, who suffers a nervous breakdown after numerous losses in close family circles.
The film opened in Spanish cinemas on April 8, 2016, in France it was screened for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2016, and the German theatrical release was on August 4, 2016.
action
Julieta, in her early fifties, gives up her apartment in Madrid in order to move to Portugal with her partner Lorenzo Gentile, with the specific intention of not coming back. She packs her books and important documents in moving boxes and throws away whatever she wants to part with on this occasion, including, somewhat hesitantly, an envelope. On the street she meets Bea, the closest friend of her daughter Antía in her youth. Bea says that she met Antía by chance a few days ago while shopping in Como . The two hadn't seen each other for about twelve years and hadn't had any contact. Antía is fine; they have three children. But it has become very narrow. You can tell that Julieta is very excited about this information; she hardly dares to ask for more details. Back home, she rummages in the wastebasket for the discarded envelope, which contains a torn photo of her with Antía. When Lorenzo calls in the evening, she does not answer, and when he goes to see her the next day and asks, irritated, she bluntly tells him that she had changed her mind about the relocation and that she was staying in Madrid. She accepts the separation from Lorenzo. The latter can hardly suppress his disappointment, and in response to his reproaches, she frankly and apparently uninvolved, that she has always kept a secret from him. Julieta rents an apartment in the house to where she had lived then with Antía admits this barren one, sits down at the desk and wrote in a notebook their memories in the form of a letter to Antía.
The flashback shows Julieta Xoan, Antía's father, a Galician fisherman, on the train. It was her great love at first sight. Antía will soon be born. The situation is not easy: Xoan keeps his free life as an independent fisherman, continues to maintain a sexual relationship with Ava, an artist with whom Julieta is also friendly. And then there is the elderly and mysterious housekeeper Marian. She jealously watches over Xoan, distrusts Julieta from the start and finally leaves the household in a dispute and with a brittle curse of revenge on her lips. Antía worships her father like a god and can hardly be convinced to spend the holidays in a camp instead of, as she dreams, on the fishing boat with her father. While Antía's absence, Julieta learns that Xoan slept with his girlfriend Ava. Julieta feels betrayed and they split up in an argument. Julieta leaves the house angry; Xoan goes fishing out to sea. A storm is raging off the Galician coast. Julieta tries to warn Xoan by phone. The news on television reports of ships in distress. It quickly becomes clear that Xoan had a fatal accident. Julieta calls Antía at the holiday camp to give her the news of her death, but encounters a euphoric situation there. Antía became friends with Bea and wants to go to Madrid with her for a while at the invitation of Bea's parents. Julieta and Ava jointly bury Xoan's ashes in the roaring surf. Julieta only tells Antía of her father's death after the funeral in Bea's apartment. Bea's mother suggests that they move in with Bea, where Julieta falls into a deep and prolonged depression . She is full of guilt. Antía travels to her parents' house to liquidate the household, where she also meets the housekeeper Marian. Antía surpasses herself in her care and care for her mother; she is rational, strong and helps the mother back on her feet. When Antía comes of age, she plans a longer break in a spiritual retreat in the Pyrenees . She says goodbye to her mother in a conspicuous way and prevents any sentimentality. When Julieta wants to pick her up after the agreed time, Antía has disappeared from the spiritual center. The leader admits that she knows Antía's whereabouts, but cold-heartedly refuses to contact her mother, ostensibly at Antía's request. Julieta hires the police, who do nothing since Antía is of legal age. Antía remains missing.
Little by little, Julieta lives in her loneliness with great feelings of guilt and in the constant awareness of having been rejected by her so much loved daughter. The job of teaching classical philology helps Julieta survive. Her friend Ava, who is increasingly suffering from multiple sclerosis , is in a Madrid hospital and tells Julieta what happened when Antía came to take care of the household. The former housekeeper Marian had taken her chance and told Antía how the parents had separated in an argument. Antía began to believe in her mother's guilt, but kept this knowledge to herself. In the hospital and at Ava's funeral, Julieta meets Lorenzo Gentile, a friend of Ava's who becomes her new partner. The flashback ends here.
After Julieta finishes this report, she falls into a deep depression again. When she dreams of Antía and Bea in a playground, Bea comes up to her; Julieta doesn't even recognize her. Only now does Bea tell the whole story of the encounter in Como. Antía only spoke to Bea at the urging of the meeting in Como. Twelve years ago, Bea fled to Antía, with whom she had a lesbian relationship, and her frequent outbursts of anger, and since then, like Julieta, has had no contact with Antía. Julieta collapses on the street and is hit by a car. Lorenzo Gentile ('gentile' (ital.) = Friendly, lovable), who is back in Madrid, witnesses and takes care of Julieta in the hospital. He finds the photo and the notebooks in Julieta's apartment. She asks if he read her report. He denies that it is not his place. Julieta says he can throw away the notebooks. She compares her desperate situation to that of a formerly 'dry' alcoholic, in whom even the smallest sip wrecks everything.
Eventually Julieta receives a letter. She immediately recognizes Antía's writing, whereupon she reads it with extreme excitement. On the back is Antía with the place of residence Sonogno ( Canton Ticino , Switzerland) named as the sender . In the letter, she tells of her boundless despair over the death of her nine-year-old son Xoan, who drowned in a river. Then she began to understand her mother's suffering.
In the final scene Lorenzo and Julieta drive to Sonogno, and the film ends with a panorama over Lake Como to the slopes above Olcio at the foot of the Grignone massif.
Reviews
Michael Meyns from Filmstarts found that Julieta bribed with “seriousness and unaccustomed grip”. Almodóvar is "no longer as exalted and pathetic as before, but still with great empathy for his (mostly female) characters".
The magazine Cinema judged that the "passionate feelings of the characters formed a delightful contrast to the colorful, strictly composed pictures". Almodóvar succeeded in "a sensitive and multi-layered study of loneliness that captivated the viewer up to the last second".
Jörg Taszman describes Julieta in his review for Deutschlandradio after all about my mother and speak to her as “one of the most beautiful films of the last 20 years”. With Suárez and Ugarte, the film shows "above all two great actresses" and is part of Almodóvar's "exquisite female dramas".
Andreas Kilb , features correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , wrote that Almodóvars had staged Julieta with his left hand and made “great cinema” from the wonderfully “woven symmetries of the original” in Munro's stories. He is “not interested in structures, but in feelings, the brief jubilation of happiness and the long violin sound of yearning.” His cinema would look “like in its prime. And that's an art. "
Susanne Ostwald, editor of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, described the film as the quintessence of Almodóvar's oeuvre, in which “everything that shaped his great films coincides in terms of motifs”. Despite all the drama, Julieta lacks a “good pinch of black humor” and “therefore does not build up the strength of earlier masterpieces - he relies too heavily on his own work, he implements too few new narrative ideas”.
Frankfurter Rundschau film critic Daniel Kothenschulte found that the Hitchcock- inspired adaptation “failed in an impressively ambitious way”. For Almodóvar it is “probably easier to portray the expression of feeling in the cinema than suffering in a state of repression. But it would have been easier not to split the role between two overwhelmed actresses ”.
Daniela Sannwald from the Tagesspiegel wrote that Julieta “did not turn out to be a great film, not even a thoroughly entertaining one”. The dramaturgy of the film unfocused - "from the unnecessarily nested flashback structure to the many voice-over comments that summarize years of developments in two sentences as if there were no assembly sequences".
Awards
Julieta was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival . The film served as the Spanish nominee for the 2017 Oscar in the category of Best Foreign Language Film , but was not nominated for the trophy. Emma Suárez was awarded a Goya for Best Actress in 2017 .
Web links
- Julieta in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Filmdienst - the portal for film culture - about Julieta.
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Julieta . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 160878 / K).
- ↑ Julieta - Film 2016 - FILMSTARTS.de. (No longer available online.) In: filmstarts.de. Archived from the original on August 7, 2016 ; accessed on May 16, 2019 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Julieta Film. In: cinema.de. Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Jörg Taszman: New in the cinema: "Julieta" by Pedro Almodóvar - A woman full of guilt (archive). In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de. August 3, 2016, accessed May 16, 2019 .
- ^ Andreas Kilb: Review of Pedro Almodóvar's new film "Julieta". In: faz.net. August 3, 2016, accessed May 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Susanne Ostwald: Left to fate. In: nzz.ch. May 18, 2016, accessed May 16, 2019 .
- ^ Daniel Kothenschulte: Almodóvar and Jarmusch disappoint. In: fr.de. May 17, 2016, accessed May 16, 2019 .
- ^ Daniela Sannwald: New film by Pedro Almodóvar "Julieta": The missing daughter - Culture - Tagesspiegel. In: tagesspiegel.de. August 4, 2016, accessed May 16, 2019 .
