"When this film won the Golden Lion for Pedro Almodovar at the Venice film festival this summer, there were three kinds of surprised critic. Some were surprised to learn that this was Almodovar's first ever major European festival award; others that this should be the film to finally bag it..."
"I found it as extravagant and engrossing and doggedly mysterious as anything he has done recently, with luxuriously self-aware performances from Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, and an undertow of darkness often overlooked by yeasayers and naysayers..."
"It is his first English-language feature, scripted by Almodovar himself, adapting Sigrid Nunez's novel What Are You Going Through. Though set in the US, it was also shot on sets and locations in Spain..."
"As ever, there is a lush, omnipresent orchestral score, seductively rich blocks of colour in the design...the story is layered and interspersed with flashbacks and incidental scenes which are semi-detached from the storytelling's downstream flow."
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