Rating of
3/4
what use is melodrama with no substance?
suladf - wrote on 01/09/12
What is it about Pedro Almodovar's films? All of them full of melodrama, highly saturated colours, and a complex non-linear storyline that slowly unravels before the audiences shocked eyes. This should make to be a an interesting, unforgettable story that lingers. Right? Yeah I suppose, but although all the trademark Almodovar themes there (LGBT themes, gorgeous, gorgeous cast members, betrayal, jealously blood-ties) it ceases to be any more poignant that the rest of his films.
With the exception of the beautiful cinematography, and wonderful performance from Banderas who manages to capture both terrifying and magical, menacing and fragile this seems like a rehash of things that he has done before. Almodovar relies on his past efforts to create a good, a very good movie but one that fails to surpass his previous work, so much so that it is overshadowed by past masterpieces.
