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I only knew the premise of this film going in and felt perplexed as I exited the cinema. It took me a while to start processing what kind of story I have just been told. You can take many things from this. I will spare you any analysis but this film oddly lulled me into this hidden world with grey blue tones, anxious people, sumptuous decor and numerous paintings to, well, frame the story.

This was my second musical I have ever seen in the cinema and the first being Dancer In The Dark I think I have found pieces that accompany each other pretty well. I want to see this film again sometime and maybe do some rabbit hole research first so that I can spot the things I definitely missed first time.

Enjoy. It's a lovely film.

Pedro Almodóvar once again takes us to a slightly surreal visual journey with many trusted tropes we all have gotten used to.

What I ended up wanting was that this film was perhaps in Spanish as the dialogue in English seemed stunted and unnatural.

I didn't end up believing the characters and somehow there was not much chemistry between anyone really.

Some scenes felt unnecessary as they didn't drive the story in any way or add any depth to already quite thin characters.

Both leads are oozing charisma but that wasn't enough to take it to the next level.

I recommend this film if you need any tips for decorating and/or colour schemes.