This time, he’s also delving more directly than usual into the pain of his country’s past. But with his 23rd film, Almodóvar continues to tap the contemplative vein of his last feature, 2019’s superb Pain & Glory, a semiautobiographical exploration of aging and mortality. The story Almodovar tells involves one shocking discovery and the keeping of secrets, as well as the way motherhood can bring women together, only to lead them down different paths-in that way, it provides plenty of opportunity for the melodramatic flourishes this 71-year-old filmmaker loves so well.
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