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Posts Tagged "Pedro Almodovar"
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Pepi, Luci, Bom [Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón] ** (1980, Carmen Maura, Eva Siva, Alaska, Félix Rotaeta) – Classic Movie Review 3571
Spanish enfant terrible cult director Pedro Almodóvar‘s 1980 first feature film, arriving belatedly in Britain in 1992 on the back of his later hits, looks at life in Madrid during the punk era. It centres on […]
Julieta ***½ (2016, Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Michelle Jenner, Rossy de Palma) – Movie Review
Writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s admirable 2016 film is a polished and provocative melodrama based on three short stories written by the Canadian author and 2013 Nobel laureate, Alice Munro. It is, surprisingly only his 20th movie in a […]
Kika **** (1993, Verónica Forqué, Peter Coyote, Victoria Abril, Àlex Casanovas, Rossy de Palma, Francisca Caballero) – Classic Movie Review 3569
Writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s biting 1993 black comedy is a typically savage, no-holds-barred assault on modern media culture. More focused and controlled than his early work in the Eighties, this is lit up by Victoria Abril’s powerhouse turn as […]
Dark Habits [Entre Tinieblas] *** (1983, Cristina Sánchez Pascual, Carmen Maura, Marisa Paredes, Julieta Serrano, Chus Lampreave) – Classic Movie Review 3573
This tasty 1983 black comedy from fashionable cult writer-director Pedro Almodóvar is his third film – after Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980) and Labyrinth of Passion (1982). It has an almost all-female cast featuring many of his favourite leading ladies and is […]
The Flower of My Secret [La Flor de mi Secreto] **** (1995, Marisa Paredes, Juan Echanove, Carme Elias, Rossy de Palma, Chus Lampreave) – Classic Movie Review 3574
The Flower of My Secret [La Flor de mi Secreto] from 1995 is one of Pedro Almódovar’s best, smartest, and most mature movies. It boasts a serious, intelligent screenplay by him that explores his characters and situations […]
Matador *** (1986, Assumpta Serna, Antonio Banderas, Nacho Martínez, Carmen Maura) – Classic Movie Review 3563
A retired male bullfighter and a smart female lawyer share a fatal fascination with death, in Pedro Almodóvar’s stylish, provocative, acclaimed 1986 black comedy film Matador. A retired male bullfighter and a smart female lawyer […]
High Heels [Tacones lejanos] **** (1991, Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bosé) – Classic Movie Review 887
Pedro Almodóvar comes up the weirdest and most contrived of plots for his 1991 movie High Heels (Tacones Lejanos) starring Victoria Abril and Marisa Paredes. ‘I hated you sometimes, but even on those times I […]