Well I didn't hate it. Its not a bad movie, its just not that great or that memorable. I guess I think its being overpraised but that's okay with me. If you like it, fine with me.
Is it a comedy? Is it a family drama/soap opera? Is it a ghost story? Its all of these things and none of these things.
It didn't make me think of "Mildred Pierce" or Joan Crawford, if it made me think of anyone it would have to be Sophia Loren, cause she might have played a role like this forty-odd years ago.
Raimunda is the glue that holds her family together. Her sister is a little...off, and her husband is up to no good, and her daughter is a teenager so therefore still finding her own place in the world. She visits her relatives, both alive and dead, and just tries to do what is right. She's a good person but she has secrets, and is accumulating more as the movie progresses.
Her daughter kills her husband because she says he was coming onto her. So she has to hide the body, after she cleans him up from the kitchen floor. Meanwhile there is family stuff going on, too. Its a lot of things, like I said, and none of them are unpleasant to watch, I just don't think any of it is that big a deal. Penelope is a good actress, judging from this one performance. I had never seen her before. I saw only one of Pedro's other movies, "Women on the Verge.." and I don't think I was crazy about that one, either, but who really remembers. 7/10.
Is it a comedy? Is it a family drama/soap opera? Is it a ghost story? Its all of these things and none of these things.
It didn't make me think of "Mildred Pierce" or Joan Crawford, if it made me think of anyone it would have to be Sophia Loren, cause she might have played a role like this forty-odd years ago.
Raimunda is the glue that holds her family together. Her sister is a little...off, and her husband is up to no good, and her daughter is a teenager so therefore still finding her own place in the world. She visits her relatives, both alive and dead, and just tries to do what is right. She's a good person but she has secrets, and is accumulating more as the movie progresses.
Her daughter kills her husband because she says he was coming onto her. So she has to hide the body, after she cleans him up from the kitchen floor. Meanwhile there is family stuff going on, too. Its a lot of things, like I said, and none of them are unpleasant to watch, I just don't think any of it is that big a deal. Penelope is a good actress, judging from this one performance. I had never seen her before. I saw only one of Pedro's other movies, "Women on the Verge.." and I don't think I was crazy about that one, either, but who really remembers. 7/10.