Review by Alexander_Blanchett

It was good but not Pedro Almodovsr's best. He was walking on new territory Language wise which you could feel as the dialogue work was not among his strongest. Topic wise and style wise ( especially the coloring ) was right up his allley though. And he brought two of the absolute heavy weights of modern cinema together on screen: Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, that alone is a wonderful achievement. Swinton is great and gives a powerhouse performance as you would expect. Julianne Moore also delivers but often seemed to leave the stage to Swinton except for some great reactive moments and the last third. I was not a dab of the ending as there were many unanswered questions. One of the biggest issues was that Almodovar focused too much on the first third of the film with a lot of elements that were abandoned and never concluded in the end. Still absolutely worth to see for the two leads and one of the most colorful films of the year despite the rather gloomy topic.