Photo: frame from the film
4 August 2016, 14:52
(0) On the screens – “Juliet” by Pedro Almodovar, the new film of the masterovitogo of significant directors. For the Spanish cultural explosion Almodovar – the same as Choi or BG for perestroika art
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Pedro Almodovar – the child of his age. Great, actually. Bred movidoy – Spanish revival of the early eighties, he splashed on the screen all the unprecedented and incredible that only accumulated in his native Spain in the years of Franco’s dictatorship. Madrid fashionistas in high heels, desperate housewives, whitish transvestites in wigs, hit the ceiling of brave writers and contemporary artists. His style, handwriting, voice, intonation – flesh this time. Photographic images of Almodovar became synonymous movidy, but Spain as a whole. Every tourist in the plane, next to Madrid, said duty watch something from his filmography, and in the streets of the city to search for almodovarovskih characters and landscapes.
Like any child, and the singer-era, Almodovar, with its end fell into a trap. Submitted to a surface of a cultural wave Almodovar was left lying on the shore after the tide receded. The only thing left to him – to think about the past. Therefore, late Almodóvar – up to the “Juliet” – completely retro. “The Return”, “Bad Education” imbued as baba, nostalgia for the golden age of freedom.
However, this strange situation Almodovar was able to extract the pros. The plot of each (with very rare and almost always unfortunate exception) Almodovar film of recent years – a meeting with the past, with the most movidoy. However, the memory of the violent youth in his best films have a very dramatic form of skeletons in the closet. The director and his characters are not so much remember the golden days, how everything clear up the mess they had done in his youth. Forbidden love, courtly romance, crime – including, but not because of the warm lamp types eighties created almodovarovskih past heroes. In the old days they did not dip with fond memories, and with horror and dismay.
The same thing happens in “Juliet”. The main character – a teacher, reforged in the corrector, is named after Shakespeare’s ladies, and it’s not the only literary allusion in the film. Lives middle-aged lady in Madrid with her boyfriend, a writer in modnyavym scarf. Packing their bags to move to neighboring Portugal. But shortly before leaving Juliet met in the street a familiar young lady. Flip words. And that … And then the girl take and bryakni: I met your daughter here, looks great, has a rest in Italy. Back at home, Juliet cancel all departures and sits down at his daughter a letter. Which will last for the entire film – and will take the form of confession heroine – slozhnospletennogo and quite a tragic story about the chain of events that led to the fact that the heroine of her daughter had not seen ten years
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Like all successful tape Almodovar, “Juliet” – a master class on drama and plot construction. There are cited, in addition to this hero of the day Shakespeare, and even Homer, and “Anna Karenina” – and it is very elegant and to the point. Brand story – a journey into the past – is constructed as a series of secrets, scandals and sentimental passages. Miracles – but who would not Almodovar filmed (in this case – the best-selling author Alice Munro), obtained his own, very recognizable product of: tempo, intensity of action, dialogue, after all. Motley colors Almodovar, as always, does not regret and do not hesitate to outright bad taste and melodrama: because it knows that if this jewelry will be very, very much, will have no bad taste, and pure art
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As always, Almodóvar skillfully and subtly builds the imagery of the film. Cross-cutting themes here – a storm and the sea. The storm (if there is such storms in Spain, as in “Juliet”, such a blizzard, both stations Bologoe Tolstoy – no matter) occurs fateful meeting with her Juliet “Romeo”, the written handsome man named Juan. On the sea and travels of Odysseus tells the heroine of his disciples and friends. At sea, working Juan. Sea half of the film is present in the frame as a sign of freedom, romance, happiness, as an ideal location for the sex scenes in the end. In the second half of the romance and freedom turn into a tragedy, a verse that is impossible to resist.
What’s in the “Juliet” is not as usual, because that’s what this movie is just beyond the statements in the genre of “dance of the skeletons out of the closet.” In this case, not so much nostalgic Almodovar, wringing her hands, how many professed funeral service and at the same time the Spanish “Golden Age».
For the first time in many years, the actress appears mascot early Almodovar Rossy de Palma, with no one comparable and instantly recognizable nosed diva (such Aguzarova Jeanne, only dark-haired – surely everyone remembers it). But more important than the appearance of the actress from old films that Almodóvar is not the first time the story builds to a meeting with the past. As such, the daughter Juliet appears in the frame. This story is not so much about the ghosts of his youth pursuing heroes, how about psychotherapy. About how you can come to terms with its own past as it can get rid of.
The director here gives itself the role of business-like conductor on the train. When an accident occurs, and all the passengers raise a panic, he appears in his and his cap with an inimitable expression of calms. Calmly, the citizens of the accident, the train got up, but soon will go. All of it, of course, obey immediately and disperse in the compartment.
In the same Aplu pacifier acts Almodovar-directed “Juliet.” Yes, citizens, of course, everything is horrible. In the past a bunch of nightmares. Behind our years of freedom, drinking, drugs, sexual liberation, and we really have done a lot of stupid. Before that won all survived forty years of dictatorship. But nothing now sit, in all understand, all the old pull out of the closet, wipe the dust and start from scratch. Each national cinematography for such comforter – that life would be! Not life – a fairy tale. But not everyone is so lucky.
Ivan Chuvilyaev, especially for “Fontanki.ru»
The project was implemented at the expense of St. Petersburg Grant
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