Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar, 2016) Beautifully designed and shot, Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s latest, Julieta, starts out with a delicious frisson of mystery that quickly flattens into tedium. It’s a gorgeous, if inert, object, in other words, and if narrative cohesion and plot momentum are of little interest to you, then the movie has much to recommend it. If, … Continue reading A Beautiful Confection, “Julieta” is Lovely to Look At, Unsatisfying to Consume![]()
