★★★★ – Financial Times. Following filmmaker Raul and his character Elsa, Pedro Almodóvar returns to cinemas with a radiant meta-journey into his own mind and heart.

"★★★★ – Almodóvar at his most acerbic, unsparing and apparently confessional, exposing for all to see the ugly human costs of making art" – Financial Times

"another dazzling, late-period jewel" – Little White Lies

"★★★★ – a rich experience" – Radio Times

Pedro Almodóvar returns to cinemas with a radiant meta-journey into his own mind and heart. Told through parallel stories, one inside the other, the film follows Raul, a celebrated filmmaker struggling with a script based on himself and those closest to him. Within his story is Elsa, an aspiring filmmaker caught in a web of frustrated dreams, loss, and complex relationships as she attempts to write her own autobiography. But the cyclical, artistic vampirism of self, friends, and lovers begins to threaten everyone’s integrity and happiness.