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Julieta

2016. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar, written by Pedro Almodóvar and Alice Munro.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

  1. Yes 1. At least two women
    16 women characters. 6 of them speak.
  2. Yes 2. Who talk to each other
    In 3 scenes out of 4.
  3. Yes 3. About something besides a man
    In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.

Poster for Julieta

The film

Julieta (Emma Suarez) is a middle-aged woman living in Madrid with her boyfriend Lorenzo. They are about to move to Portugal when she casually runs into Bea, the former best friend of Julieta's daughter Antia. Bea reveals that Antia is living in Switzerland, married, with three children. Heartbroken after 12 years of estrangement from her daughter, Julieta cancels the move to Portugal and moves to her former building, hoping that Antia will send her a letter. Alone with her thoughts, Julieta starts to write her memories to confront the pain of the events that happened when she was a teenager (Adriana Ugarte) and met Galician fisherman Xoan. Falling in love with him, Julieta divides her time between her family, her job, and Antia's education until a fatal accident changes their lives. Slowly falling into a depression, Julieta is helped by Antia and Bea, but one day Antia suddenly goes missing after a vacation, with no clues about where to find her, leaving Julieta desperate to understand the reasons of her disappearance..

Released
21 Dec 2016
Genres
Drama, Mystery, Romance
Rated
R
IMDb
7.1 / 10
Metascore
73 / 100
Awards
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award. 14 wins & 62 nominations total
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. Julieta 266 lines, woman
  2. Xoan 46 lines, man
  3. Marian 36 lines, woman
  4. Samuel 35 lines, man
  5. Beatriz 30 lines, woman
  6. Lorenzo 30 lines, man
  7. Ava 27 lines, woman
  8. Juana 19 lines, woman
  9. Bea’S Mother 12 lines, woman
  10. Inocencio 11 lines, woman
Full cast, 41 people
  • Emma Suárez as Julieta Arcos
  • Adriana Ugarte as Julieta Arcos (young)
  • Daniel Grao as Xoan Feijóo
  • Inma Cuesta as Ava
  • Darío Grandinetti as Lorenzo
  • Michelle Jenner as Beatriz
  • Pilar Castro as Claudia (Beatriz's Mother)
  • Nathalie Poza as Juana
  • Susi Sánchez as Sara (Julieta's Mother)
  • Joaquín Notario as Samuel (Julieta's Father)
  • Priscilla Delgado as Antía Feijoo (Teenager)
  • Blanca Parés as Antía Feijóo (18 yrs old)
  • Ariadna Martín
  • Rossy de Palma as Marian
  • Sara Jiménez as Beatriz (Teenager)
  • Tomás del Estal as Man on Train
  • Mariam Bachir as Sanáa
  • Luis Iglesia as Forense
  • Lupe Roda
  • Monti Castiñeiras
  • Agustín Almodóvar as Train Conductor
  • María Mera
  • Paqui Horcajo as Train Passenger
  • Cecilia Rivera
  • Ramón Ibarra
  • Mari Carmen Sánchez as Train Passenger
  • Oscar Rus
  • Jorge Pobes as Train Passenger
  • Cuco Usín
  • Fernando Iglesias
  • Carlos García Cambero
  • Liliana Niespial as Liliana
  • Bimba Bosé as Beatriz's Friend
  • David Delfín as Beatriz's Friend
  • Elena Benarroch as Beatriz's Friend
  • Charles Centa
  • Toni Novella
  • Lola García
  • Esther García as Woman at Cemetery
  • Jimena Solano as Antia Feijóo (2 yrs old)
  • Ramon Agirre as Goalkeeper

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 1 scene, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 2% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 4

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Show the numbers
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 116066
2 to 210745
3 to 3310
4 to 412215

The evidence

  • Straight from the script
  • Counted from the script and the credits

Tap an exhibit to open it.

Exhibit A: the passing scenes

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
JULIETA: I’d like you to keep respecting it. JULIETA: Hello, Inocencio! INOCENCIO: Miss Julieta! It’s been ages! JULIETA: Yes, indeed. By chance, have any letters come for me?
MARIAN: Leave that, I’ll wash them. MARIAN: Is she staying today? JULIETA: Yes.
SARA: Our daughter. JULIETA: Hi, mom. We’re here. JULIETA: Aren’t you glad to see us? Look, this is Antía. You don’t recognize her because she’s got so big.
SARA: Julieta! JULIETA: Mom. SARA: What are you doing here? JULIETA: I’ve come to see you. I’ve brought Antía.
AVA: Wait, I’ll get it. AVA: It’s Bea’s mother. She wants to talk to you. JULIETA: Bea? Who’s Bea? AVA: A friend of Antía’s, from camp.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 77 are women's.

420 lines from women, 126 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

16 women and 13 men in the cast. 6 women and 4 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

A woman speaks the first line. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 5 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

  • First line by a woman
  • Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 79% of the words (4,868), men 21% (1,273). Women have 77% of the lines, so their lines run longer than men's.

Exhibit E: the test the other way

Run the other way, for men, the film scores 1 out of 3.

Conversations between two named characters

Exhibit F: behind the camera

4 of the 11 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 41% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by
Pedro Almodóvar (man)
Written by
Pedro Almodóvar (man)
Produced by
Esther García (woman), Agustín Almodóvar (man)
Shot by
Jean-Claude Larrieu (man)
Edited by
José Salcedo (man)
Music by
Alberto Iglesias (man)
Production design by
Antxón Gómez (man)
Costumes by
Sonia Grande (woman)
Cast by
Eva Leira (woman), Yolanda Serrano (woman)

The crew, department by department

  • Costume & Make-Up

    6 women, 3 men, 8 not listed

  • Production

    3 women, 2 men, 3 not listed

  • Sound

    0 women, 5 men, 1 not listed

  • Art

    1 women, 2 men, 1 not listed

  • Camera

    0 women, 1 men, 1 not listed

  • Writing

    1 women, 1 men

  • Directing

    0 women, 1 men

  • Editing

    0 women, 1 men

  • Women
  • Men
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit G: how old the stars were

Women: 42 on average. Men: 49 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Michelle Jenner 29, Adriana Ugarte 31, Inma Cuesta 35, Nathalie Poza 44, Pilar Castro 45, Emma Suárez 51, Susi Sánchez 61

Men

Daniel Grao 40, Darío Grandinetti 57

Exhibit H: the money

It made 15.1 times what it cost.

Budget
$1.5 million
Box office
$22.5 million

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 4 scenes and 559 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works

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