Pedro Almodóvar’s few id-tamped, grown-up movies are rarely the ones we remember. And the release of each of them, harking most recently to Volver, yields the usual critical musings about a renegade mellowing — an enfant terrible maturing into an elder statesman. Enter the uncharacteristic sparseness of his latest, Julieta, which Almodóvar adapted from a seemingly … [Read more...]