'Julieta' trivia and fun facts

This marks Almodóvar's return to drama, more specifically "women's" drama, which he hasn't worked on since 'Volver' (2006).

The film has been selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

Pedro Almodóvar cancelled all his interviews and the official premiere in Madrid after he and his brother were linked to the Panama Papers scandal.

Pedro Almodóvar's twentieth feature film.

The film originally was going to call 'Silencio', but Martin Scorsese was going to use the same title in his next project so the production company decided to call the film 'Julieta'.

Richard Serra painting appears in the film.

Before the premiere of the film, Pedro and Agustin Almodovar's El Deseo has suffered the loss of one of their main actresses: Chus Lampreave.

The original screenplay was written in English, but when Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar went scouting to Canada, the director felt insecure to shoot in a place he didn't really know, in a language he didn't master and with a story he felt worked better at Spain.