The latest film from Spain’s foremost director, Pedro Almodovar, is based on short stories by Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro and explores the unbreakable love between mother and daughter. Julieta, a beautiful, middle aged, classics professor, is preparing to leave Madrid to move with her partner to Portugal. After a chance meeting with the best friend of her long-lost daughter, Julieta suddenly abandons her plan. She returns to her old apartment, clinging to the hope of some word from her daughter. It’s been thirteen years. As she writes letters to her daughter, Julieta recounts how she first met Xoan, a handsome fisherman, onboard a train - their attraction instantaneous. Soon after, Julieta, pregnant, turns up at her lover’s seaside cottage. Going back and forth in time, Julieta’s story and the mystery of her daughter’s disappearance gradually unfolds. Julieta is Spain’s submission for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. (Running Time: 100 minutes)
