Analysis Of Pedro Almodovar's Film Julieta

Pedro Almodovar’s twentieth feature film, Julieta, chronicles the title character’s life as she is forced to reflect upon her riddled past and confront the tragic circumstances that surround the disappearance of her daughter. Almodovar based Julieta off of a series of short stories written by Nobel Prize winning author Alice Munro, which follow three stages of a Canadian woman’s life who faces similar circumstances. At it’s conception, Julieta was intended to be Almodovar 's first English-language film; however Almodovar was not confident writing the script in English and settled on setting the film in Spain and making it in Spanish. The New York Film Festival was the film’s American debut and both leading actresses as well as Almodovar were present for the occasion. Julieta relates to the trends identified in global art cinema by displaying symbolic and ambiguous aesthetics, depending on festival circuits rather than studio distribution, and employing …show more content…
The film Julieta, and the way in which it was exhibited encapsulate the key qualities of art cinema. Julieta attests to art cinema’s ability to travel after successfully journeying through multiple film festivals and still maintaining an ease to be comprehended and understood by international audiences. The film’s recognizable aesthetics urged The Film Society of Lincoln Center to program Julieta during the New York Film Festival’s Main Slate category based on the knowledge that Almodovar’s auteurism is widely celebrated and has a large cult following. Almodovar’s following consequently puts more people in the audience to watch his film, increasing ticket revenue for the festival. Finally, the exhibition of Julieta at the New York Film Festival places the film in the art cinema category, and therefore a position of sophistication in comparison to the movies released by the commercial film industry