Penelope Cruz and Milena Smit
(Picture: Handout)Some older directors merrily churn out bland films. It’s as if they have too much time on their hands and just want to keep busy. But that’s enough about Woody Allen.
72-year-old Pedro Almodóvar wields the camera like a man possessed. His latest could be described as a race against time, a desperate treasure hunt for fragile booty (the remains of “leftists”, massacred during the Spanish Civil War). Tick tick tick. Dry bones, here, fuel an extraordinary amount of drama. To put it another way, I left the screening drenched in tears.
