free spirit. The fact that anyone would pay him any attention, much less believe his ruse, seems preposterous. Not helping, perhaps, is that the daughter is so expertly chilly that much of the humor is banked. What does work for this reviewer is director Ade’s overall smart yet snarky take on international corporate life. The airless meetings and cocktail parties, the vapid business talk (it is never clear in the film what kind of “business” is being done), the stale hotel life – all are valid reasons why Winfried wants Ines free of them. And while the film works awfully hard, and at sobering length, to make us chortle at this world, the fact that it is depicted at all in a movie is singular.
‘Julieta’ The great Spanish director Pedro Almodovar has been nominated four times for Academy Awards and won once with “All about My Mother.” His latest, his 20th feature film, could place him in the category again. After misfiring with the lurid farce “I’m So Excited” (2013), Almodóvar returns to drama and, surprisingly, takes as his source three short stories of Alice Munro published in her collection “Runaway.” (The film, now in theaters, is rated R for mature themes and runs 99 minutes.) “Julieta” stars Emma Suarez and Adriana Ugarte, playing the older and younger versions of the film’s titular character. The film opens with the older Julieta (Suarez) learning, after many years, of the whereabouts of her long-estranged daughter Antia from
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