The Aragonese Pyrenees lent its landscapes to the film.
juliet trace the map of her life on the map of Spain. And it is that, as she told Pedro Almodovar during filming, the landscapes chosen for this production are "characters" with dramatic entity . Julieta, the protagonist, modifies her states of mind according to the environment in which she finds herself, and this environment in turn receives the conditioning factor of her gaze. A look in love or nostalgic, hopeful or melancholic, painful or vital, sunny or cloudy, busy or lonely. Juliet and her places merge, and her trips, whether by train, bus or car, are, without a doubt, interior travel.
TOLEDO
The filming of the most famous contemporary Spanish director on the planet could only start in his land: La Mancha. An abandoned train station in Toledo It served as the setting for the first sequence that was shot, characterized by a winter and cold snow that covered everything. "I am in an abandoned railway station in the province of Toledo. We shot some scenes of interior and exterior of trains where they meet Adriana Ugarte and Daniel Grao . I have taken the first clapperboard because my brother Agustin , producer and documentarian of the script, has made this photo a kind of tradition since social networks exist," Pedro Almodóvar wrote on his blog.
Filming starts on a train from Toledo.
GALICIA
We are in the eighties and then in the nineties. juliet (a blonde Adriana Ugarte) has fallen in love with that fisherman she met on the train and goes to live with him in her town, Redes, in Coruña, in the Ares estuary . The sea, the fog, the large mansions they form part of the exterior (and interior) landscape of the protagonist: "Someone with the sun like me," she says (her family is from Andalusia).
It must be said that the neighbours of the town welcomed with enthusiasm the shooting, as can be read in the local newspapers of the date. In the O Pedregal square and around New Street no more and no less than seven trucks and they are three houses that were rented for filming, where they participated Adriana Ugarte, Rosy de Palma, Inma Cuesta and Daniel Grao.
The mugardos beach It was the scene where the film was shot. scene around the drowning. The pier and the Clock building appear at this time.
The kitchen of the house of the protagonists in the Galician Redes.
ANDALUSIA
A blue bus arrives in town and Adriana Ugarte and a baby get off it. We are in Sanlucar la Mayor, in Seville . The square in which the scenes in which Julieta takes her daughter to see her parents were filmed is one of the most representative of the town, that of San Pedro . The day before the shoot, the producer had gone house to house explaining to the neighbors how it was going to be shot, and asking them not to hang clothes from the balconies, and not to go in or out. They all collaborated.
From there, the protagonists go to the Julieta's parents' new house : a beautiful and fruitful farm in the field , with her own garden. The place is La Cansina, a Andalusian farmhouse from the mid-19th century , with two restored floors, a garden, an orchard, and a rustic kitchen who also stars in a scene. The property, in fact, can be rented for weekends, weddings or events.
The La Cansina estate served as the home of Julieta's parents.
La Cansina is located on the outskirts of Mairena del Alcor, and it is said that Almodóvar shot "almost secretly", since the director and his team did not let themselves be seen by Mairena. In a empty ship in this location was also shot the car scene , according to what the Mayor of Alcore told at the time. Some members of the team stayed at La Cansina (which is not surprising, since the farm seems to us to be one of those perfect sunny havens where to hide from the world).
La Cansina estate, one of the settings.
ARAGONESE PYRENEES
We are already with one adult juliet (Emma Suárez) about to run out of her daughter. Here the impressive mountain landscapes they transmit to us isolation and loneliness of these vital moments of the character.
"The scenes are a hand in hand between Emma Suárez and the disturbing Nathalie Poza in an isolated house with a natural balcony facing the Peña Montañesa, in Fanlo . Worth the topic, incomparable setting where they exist. We have passed a lot of heat, a lot of vertigo, a lot of fear and a lot of pleasure when we finished the last shot of this meeting at the summit, ”Almodóvar wrote on his blog.
Also in the Aragonese Pyrenees, in the roads of Panticosa (Huesca), the final scene was shot, with Emma Suarez and Dario Grandinetti driving through the curves of mountains, surrounded by stunning natural beauty. Here's a fact: the aerial view was made with a drone, which facilitated the overview of the entire mountainous environment of the area.
When he was filming in those lands, Almodóvar assured that the Aragonese Pyrenees allowed him to have natural settings that imprinted dramatic force on the story . In the Pyrenean mountains, there are lonely areas where the characters "can lead a kind of life aside from everything , from society and from witnesses, in an isolated and unpunished way", he commented. The Pyrenees is "splendorous" , affirmed the manchego, while he pointed out that for this moment he was looking for a scenario that "marked distance" with Madrid , where his character is very alone and "with nothing and no one to help him."
The shooting was moved to Fanlo, in the Aragonese Pyrenees.
MADRID
Pedro Almodóvar is a Manchego in love with his land, but also a Madrilenian by adoption , lover (like all of us who are) of this city that welcomes and at the same time leaves alone where so many times we feel, Like Juliet, cared for and supported , and others abandoned . If Madrid already has its own Almodovarian map, there are a few stops added to it in this latest film.
As soon as we start, we see a Adult Juliet about to leave the capital . she walks by Chamberí, by Marqués de Riscal corner Monte Esquinza , when she bumps into **Beatrice (Michelle Jenner)**. Bea is no longer that girl, but an adult who is dedicated to the world of fashion (here the first cameo: Bimba Bosé and David Delfin hurry him up). Juliet, hearing the news of Antia , she decides to stay in Madrid and return to the house where she lived with her daughter.
Emma Suárez-Julieta, by Chamberí.
Home: oh that house. Those walls, those furniture, those balconies, that kitchen (several appear, by the way, in the film), that bathroom. Julieta's house in Madrid is in Fernando VI , and so the director lets us know, since we read it in every letter that the protagonist receives, and we also see it: the neighborhood shop, the Night walk through Regueros . Upon returning, Julieta lies to the goalkeeper: "I've been away from Spain for a while, but I've decided to come back and I missed the neighborhood ", she comments. In a way, she has been out: absent, with another life built on" fragile foundations ", as she would later admit. The neighborhood around Fernando VI welcomes her as he welcomed her after the first tragedy. And it's her again.
Julieta's apartment is in Fernando VI.
Madrid welcomes Julieta and her teenage daughter during a very difficult time in their lives. Antía, her daughter, has become a close friend of Beatriz, and one of her scenes takes place in her house. In a room and in the kitchen: again a kitchen, again a cameo. this time it is Elena Benarroch herself who appears and the kitchen, it must be said, is that of the designer.
Julieta watches teenagers play on a basketball court that she will return to when she is older and she is alone to remember. The place is the Eva Peron Park , beside Manuel Becerra . There are scenes on the slopes and the run over of the protagonist takes place in the adjoining street Gomez Ulla.
The basketball courts are in the Parque de Eva Perón.
Julieta walks through a Madrid that imprisons her or frees her: Alonso Martinez It is a good place to feel anonymous and lonely at the same time. We intuit at some point Malasana . Or, in a cinephile wink , she goes through the Princesa cinemas, in the Plaza de los Cubos . To shoot the scenes of a young Juliet, a teacher, Almodóvar chose the Study School, in Aravaca.
Lastly, if the scenery they help us to understand the state of mind and to know the soul of juliet , with food the same thing happens: there are five kitchens that appear in the film. Teas, salads, the preparation of an omelette, beautiful birthday cakes that go to the trash, tomatoes and peppers , or a breakfast with pastries receive their Almodovarian minutes of glory. Again, these elements serve to tell us an inside story (we have already **talked about Almodóvar's food**). Meanwhile, we are still impregnated with its landscapes . And with Juliet.
Julieta gets lost among the people in Alonso Martínez.
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