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With shades of Hitchcock, Pedro Almodóvar’s drama about a woman searching for her daughter explores his usual themes of love, guilt and destiny.
Director Pedro Almodóvar made his name celebrating complicated, fascinating female characters with such acclaimed work as Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and All About My Mother. Here he adapts Alice Munro’s linked short stories with a Hitchcockian eye, exploring themes of love, guilt and destiny
Julieta lives in Madrid with her daughter Antía. They both suffer in silence over the loss of Xoan, Antía’s father and Julieta’s husband—but sometimes, grief doesn’t bring people closer, it drives them apart. When Antía turns eighteen she abandons her mother without a word of explanation. Julieta looks for her in every possible way, but all she discovers is how little she knows of her daughter. D: Pedro Almóvar, Spain, subtitled, 2016, 1h 39m
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