The Skin I Live In
"Julieta" marked Almodóvar's 20th feature film. The film was inspired by "Chance", "Silence" and "Soon", three short stories from the 2004 book "Runaway" by Nobel laureate Alice Munro, from whom Almodóvar bought the film rights in 2009. He later said he specifically asked for the rights due to the pivotal scenes that take place on a train: "There is something incredibly passionate about them", he said. "A woman, on a train, and it's very cinematographic". The director admitted that he had not been completely faithful to the source material, but noted the significance of Munro's depiction of family relationships and the links between women, which he believed to be an important part of his adaptation. It is Almodóvar's third film to be based on a foreign-language text, after "Live Flesh" (1997) and "The Skin I Live In" (2011). He first titled the film "Silencio" (), based on the title of one of the short stories, but changed it to "Julieta" in post-production to avoid confusion with Martin Scorsese's "Silence", which was also released in 2016.