beautifully played a very well written script with great performances, wonderful score. and it sounds like a perfect match. the problem for me is that it s not so much parallel stories, it s tangential stories. you have the spanish civil war story, which kind of appears and then gets sidelined. you have the personal story, which is full of melodramatic contrivance which you re kind of meant to buy into because, hey, it serves the story. and then we move back to the spanish civil war, so now. i have to say, i m in the minority here. most people i ve spoken to think this is great. and i m a big pedro almodovarfan, i loved the short film that he made, the human voice, just recently. itjust felt to me like this is not one of his best works. it has some great elements in it, and it has some things in it that i will cherish, but it did feel like two films and, like i said, not so much parallel as kind of tangential. how fascinating. he doesn t usually do politics, does he? he has done poli
so now i have to say, i m in the minority here. most people i ve spoken to think this is great. and i m a big pedro almodovarfan, i love the short film that he made, i loved the short film that he made, the human voice, just recently. itjust felt to me like this is not one of his best works. it has some great elements in it, and it has some things in it that i will cherish, but it did feel like two films and, like i said, not so much parallel as kind of tangential. how fascinating. he doesn t usually do politics, does he? he has done political comedy before, but it s never really landed for me. but this is, you know, this is a serious work. it s serious, and it s clearly very personal and heartfelt. it s serious, and it s clearly very personal and heartfelt. i wish i liked it more than i did. which brings me rather nicely onto amulet, which is a british horror movie, written and directed by romola garai. this is her directorial debut. and the story is an ex soldier from an unnamed eu