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Julieta
Why this pick
Almodóvar returns to an emotionally guarded woman facing absence, regret and difficult family bonds, with the same compassionate attention to private pain and richly composed domestic spaces.
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MOVIE1995 1h 47m ESP
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Leocadia ("Leo") Macías (Marisa Paredes), a woman writing popular romance novels under the pen name Amanda Gris. Unlike her romantic ("pink") novels, her own love life is troubled. Leo has a difficult relationship with her husband Paco (Imanol Arias), a military officer stationed in Brussels and later in Bosnia, who is distant both physically and emotionally. The film starts with Leo writing about the feeling of having lost her lover, a feeling that she compares to the pain of a tight pair of boots that she can't take off. Almodovar took for this first part of the film strong plot elements from Dorothy Parker's short story ''The Lovely Leave''
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Marisa Paredes
Leo Macías
Rossy de Palma
Rosa
Chus Lampreave
Madre de Leo
Juan Echanove
Ángel
Carme Elias
Betty
Joaquín Cortés
Antonio
Imanol Arias
Paco
Gloria Muñoz
Alicia