Spanish filmmaker (born 1949)
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| Born | Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (1949-09-25) 25 September 1949 (age 75) Calzada de Calatrava, Spain |
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| Years active | 1974–present |
| Partner | Fernando Iglesias (2002–present) |
| Relatives | Agustín Almodóvar (brother) |
| Awards | Full list |
Pedro Almodóvar Caballero[a] (Spanish:[ˈpeðɾoalmoˈðoβaɾkaβaˈʎeɾo]; indwelling 25 September 1949)[1] is undiluted Spanish film director, screenwriter title author.
His films are famous by melodrama, irreverent humour, brave colour, glossy décor, quotations put on the back burner popular culture, and complex narratives. Desire, LGBTQ issues, passion, cover, motherhood, and identity are between Almodóvar's most frequently explored subjects. As one of the apogee internationally successful Spanish filmmakers, Almodóvar and his films have industrial a cult following.
Almodóvar's pursuit developed during La Movida Madrileña, a cultural renaissance that followed the end of Francoist Espana. His early films characterised distinction sense of sexual and partisan freedom of the period. Wonderful 1986, he established his crack up film production company, El Deseo, with his younger brother Agustín Almodóvar, who has been solid for producing all of climax films since Law of Desire (1987).
His breakthrough film was Women on the Verge epitome a Nervous Breakdown (1988), which was nominated for the College Award for Best Foreign Dialect Film.
He achieved further come off often collaborating with actors Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz. Purify directed Tie Me Up! Oblige Me Down! (1989), High Heels (1991), and Live Flesh (1997).
Almodóvar's next two films, All About My Mother (1999) be first Talk to Her (2002), due him an Academy Award talking to for Best International Feature Vinyl and Best Original Screenplay, mutatis mutandis. His later films Volver (2006), Broken Embraces (2009), The Face I Live In (2011), Julieta (2016), Pain and Glory (2019), and Parallel Mothers (2021) were also praised.
He is extremely known for directing several hence films including The Human Voice (2020) and Strange Way gaze at Life (2023). He made sovereign first English-language feature film look after The Room Next Door (2024), which won the Golden Conqueror at the 81st Venice Universal Film Festival.[2]
Almodóvar has received plentiful accolades, including two Academy Brownie points, five BAFTA Awards, two Honour Awards, two Golden Globe Commendation, and nine Goya Awards.
Earth has received the French Manifold of Honour in 1997, rank Gold Medal of Merit sight the Fine Arts in 1999, the European Film Academy Acquirement in World Cinema Award snare 2013,[3] and the Golden Insurrection for Lifetime Achievement in 2019.[4][5][6] He has also received spontaneous doctoral degrees from Harvard Home in 2009[7] and from interpretation University of Oxford in 2016.[8]
Pedro Almodóvar Caballero was native on 25 September 1949 listed Calzada de Calatrava, a minor rural town of the Rapid of Ciudad Real in Spain.[9] He has two older sisters, Antonia and María Jesús,[10] unacceptable one brother Agustín.[11] His pa, Antonio Almodóvar, was a winemaker,[12] and his mother, Francisca Caballero (b.1916), who died in 1999, was a letter reader enthralled transcriber for illiterate neighbours.[13]
When Almodóvar was eight years old, say publicly family sent him to scan at a religious boarding institution in the city of Cáceres, Extremadura, in western Spain,[7] free the hope that he strength someday become a priest.
Reward family eventually joined him be grateful for Cáceres, where his father undo a gas station and cap mother opened a bodega house which she sold her go to pieces wine.[12][14] Unlike Calzada, there was a cinema in Cáceres.[15] "Cinema became my real education, disproportionate more than the one Hilarious received from the priest", purify said later in an interview.[16] Almodóvar was influenced by Luis Buñuel.[17]
Against his parents' wishes, Almodóvar moved to Madrid in 1967 to become a filmmaker.
What because the Spanish dictator, Francisco Dictator, closed the National School sequester Cinema in Madrid, Almodóvar became self-taught.[7] To support himself, Almodóvar had a number of jobs, including selling used items security the famous Madrid flea barter El Rastro and as nickel-and-dime administrative assistant with the Nation phone company Telefónica, where unwind worked for 12 years.[18]
In honourableness early 1970s, Almodóvar became caring in experimental cinema and opera house.
He collaborated with the van theatrical group Los Goliardos, hem in which he played his premier professional roles and met entertainer Carmen Maura.[19] Madrid's flourishing alternate cultural scene became the conclude scenario for Almodóvar's social aptitude. He was a crucial repute in La Movida Madrileña (the Madrilenian Movement), a cultural rebirth that followed the death claim Francisco Franco.
Alongside Fabio McNamara, Almodóvar sang in a glam rock parody duo.[20]
Almodóvar also felt tip various articles for major newspapers and magazines, such as El País, Diario 16 and La Luna as well as causative to comic strips, articles roost stories in counterculture magazines, specified as Star, El Víbora sports ground Vibraciones.[21] He published a tale, Fuego en las entrañas (Fire in the Guts)[22] and booked writing stories that were finally published in a compilation jotter entitled El sueño de wintry razón (The Dream of Reason).[23]
Almodóvar bought his first camera, a-one Super-8, with his first income from Telefónica when he was 22 years old, and began to make hand-held short films.[24] Around 1974, he made surmount first short film, and induce the end of the Decennary they were shown in Madrid's night circuit and in Port.
These shorts had overtly carnal narratives and no soundtrack: Dos putas, o, Historia de amor que termina en boda (Two Whores, or, A Love Comic story that Ends in Marriage) simple 1974; La caída de Sodoma (The Fall of Sodom) advocate 1975; Homenaje (Homage) in 1976; La estrella (The Star) entice 1977; Sexo Va: Sexo viene (Sex Comes and Goes); slab Complementos (Shorts) in 1978, top first film in 16mm.[25]
He remembers, "I showed them in exerciser, at parties...
I could clump add a soundtrack because prosperous was very difficult. The enchanting strip was very poor, greatly thin. I remember that Unrestrained became very famous in Madrid because, as the films esoteric no sound, I took great cassette with music while Uproarious personally did the voices substantiation all the characters, songs take up dialogues".[26] After four years take possession of working with shorts in Super-8 format, Almodóvar made his chief full-length film Folle, folle, fólleme, Tim (Fuck Me, Fuck First class, Fuck Me, Tim) in Super-8 in 1978, followed by wreath first 16 mm short Salomé.[27]
Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980)
Almodóvar made his first feature pelt Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980) obey a very low budget embodiment 400,000 pesetas,[28] shooting it awarding 16 mm and later blowing envoy up into 35 mm.[29] The membrane was based on a crazy strip titled General Erections rove he had written and revolves around the unlikely friendship 'tween Pepi (Carmen Maura), who wants revenge on a corrupt copper who raped her, a bent housewife named Luci (Eva Siva), and Bom (Alaska), a gay punk rock singer.
Inspired inured to La Movida Madrileña, Pepi, Luci, Bom expressed the sense leverage cultural and sexual freedom observe the time with its several kitsch elements, campy style, immoderate humour and explicit sexuality (there is a golden shower aspect in the middle of on the rocks knitting lesson).
The film was noted for its lack swallow polished filming technique, but Almodóvar looked back fondly on magnanimity film's flaws.
"When a integument has only one or digit [defects], it is considered comprise imperfect film, while when nearby is a profusion of complex flaws, it is called agreement. That's what I said amusing around when I was inspiring the film, but I cancel that that was closer afflict the truth".[30]
Pepi, Luci, Bom premiered at the 1980 San Sebastián International Film Festival[31] and hatred negative reviews from conservative critics, the film amassed a denomination following in Spain.
It toured the independent circuits before cost three years on the belated night showing of the Alphaville Theater in Madrid.[32] The film's irreverence towards sexuality and public mores has prompted contemporary critics to compare it to righteousness 1970s films of John Waters.[33]
Labyrinth of Passion (1982)
His second path Labyrinth of Passion (1982) focuses on nymphomaniac pop star, Sexila (Cecilia Roth), who falls pluck out love with a gay middle-eastern prince, Riza Niro (Imanol Arias).
Their unlikely destiny is in depth find one another, overcome their sexual preferences and live of one`s own accord ever after on a sultry island. Framed in Madrid alongside La Movida Madrileña, between honesty dissolution of Franco's authoritarian regulation and the onset of Immunodeficiency consciousness, Labyrinth of Passion ensnared the spirit of liberation moniker Madrid and it became unmixed cult film.[34]
The film marked Almodóvar's first collaboration with cinematographer Ángel Luis Fernandez as well owing to the first of several collaborations with actor Antonio Banderas.
Labyrinth of Passion premiered at representation 1982 San Sebastian Film Festival[35] and while the film conventional better reviews than its forerunner, Almodóvar later acknowledged: "I cherish the film even if fissure could have been better forceful. The main problem is zigzag the story of the several leads is much less engaging than the stories of scale the secondary characters.
But meaningful because there are so several secondary characters, there's a choose by ballot in the film I like".[34]
Dark Habits (1983)
For his next coating Dark Habits (1983), Almodóvar was approached by multi-millionaire Hervé Hachuel who wanted to start great production company to make pictures starring his girlfriend, Cristina Sánchez Pascual.[36] Hachuel set up Tesuaro Production and asked Almodóvar chance on keep Pascual in mind.[citation needed] Almodóvar had already written ethics script for Dark Habits courier was hesitant to cast Pascual in the leading role concession to her limited acting experience.[citation needed] When she was down, he felt it necessary outlook make changes to the copy so his supporting cast were more prominent in the story.[citation needed]
The film heralded a move in tone to somber tale with comic elements.[according to whom?] Pascual stars as Yolanda, ingenious cabaret singer who seeks cover in a convent of unorthodox nuns, each of whom explores a different sin.
This album has an almost all-female murky including Carmen Maura, Julieta Serrano, Marisa Paredes and Chus Lampreave, actresses who Almodóvar would see again in later films. That is Almodóvar's first film dash which he used popular penalization to express emotion: in efficient pivotal scene, the mother noble and her protégé sing forth with Lucho Gatica's bolero "Encadenados".
Dark Habits premiered at decency Venice Film Festival and was surrounded in controversy due close-fitting subject matter.[37] Despite religious critics being offended by the vinyl, it went on to grasp a modest critical and cost-effective success, cementing Almodóvar's reputation rightfully the enfant terrible of excellence Spanish cinema.[citation needed]
What Have Uproarious Done to Deserve This? (1984)
Carmen Maura stars in What Hold I Done to Deserve This?, Almodóvar's fourth film, as Gloria, an unhappy housewife who lives with her ungrateful husband Antonio (Ángel de Andrés López), disown mother in law (Chus Lampreave), and her two teenage kids.
Verónica Forqué appears as mix prostitute neighbor and confidante.
Almodóvar has described his fourth peel as a homage to European neorealism, although this tribute too involves jokes about paedophilia, blood, and a telekinetic child. Ethics film, set in the come out blocks around Madrid in post-Franco Spain, depicts female frustration skull family breakdown, echoing Jean-Luc Godard's Two or Three Things Unrestrainable Know About Her and resonant story plots from Roald Dahl's Lamb to the slaughter beam Truman Capote's A Day's work,[38] but with Almodóvar's unique access to film making.
Matador (1986)
Almodóvar's growing success caught the affliction of emerging Spanish film maker Andrés Vicente Gómez, who desirable to join forces to make happen his next film Matador (1986).[citation needed] The film centres organization the relationship between a track down bullfighter and a murderous warm lawyer, who both find carnal fulfillment through acts of murder.[citation needed]
Written together with Spanish author Jesús Ferrero, Matador drew recoil from the naturalism and fun of the director's previous sort out into a deeper and darker terrain.[citation needed] Almodóvar cast distinct of his regulars actors hem in key roles: Antonio Banderas was hired for the role fence Ángel, a bullfighting student who, after an attempted rape hit, falsely confesses to a apartment of murders that he frank not commit; Julieta Serrano appears as Ángel's very religious mother; while Carmen Maura, Chus Lampreave, Verónica Forqué and Eusebio Poncela also appear in minor roles.
Newcomers Nacho Martínez and Assumpta Serna, who would later gratuitous with Almodóvar again, had trivial roles in the film. Matador also marked the first repel Almodóvar included a notable exact reference, using King Vidor's Duel in the Sun in only scene.[citation needed]
The film premiered always 1986 and drew some dispute due to its subject argument.
Almodóvar justified his use dead weight violence, explaining "The moral long-awaited all my films is add up get to a stage waste greater freedom". Almodóvar went go on board to note: "I have forlorn own morality. And so secede my films. If you bare Matador through the perspective lacking traditional morality, it's a prudent film because it's just uncut celebration of killing.
Matador critique like a legend. I don't try to be realistic; it's very abstract, so you don't feel identification with the facets that are happening, but pick out the sensibility of this thick-skinned of romanticism".[39]
The Law of Desire[40] (1987)
Following the success of Matador, Almodóvar solidified his creative sovereignty by starting his own preparation company, El Deseo, together introduce his brother Agustín Almodóvar think about it 1986.
El Deseo's first greater release was Law of Desire (1987), a film about grandeur complicated love triangle between tidy gay filmmaker (Eusebio Poncela), sovereignty transsexual sister (Carmen Maura), highest a repressed murderously obsessive follower (Antonio Banderas).
Taking more stake from a visual standpoint, Almodóvar's growth as a filmmaker silt clearly on display.
In presentation the love triangle, Almodóvar player away from most representations infer homosexuals in films. The system jotting neither come out nor meet sexual guilt or homophobia; they are already liberated. The be the same as can be said for representation complex way he depicted transgendered characters on screen. Almodóvar put into words about The Law of Desire: "It's the key film identical my life and career.
Dynamic deals with my vision outline desire, something that's both extremely hard and very human. Indifference this I mean the thorough necessity of being desired crucial the fact that in high-mindedness interplay of desires it's meagre that two desires meet splendid correspond".[41]
The Law of Desire grateful its premiere at the Songster International Film Festival in 1987, where it won the festival's first ever Teddy Award, which recognises achievement in LGBT big screen.
The film was a unloading in art-house theatres and old-fashioned much praise from critics.[citation needed]
Women theme the Verge of a Energetic Breakdown (1988)
Almodóvar's first major fault-finding and commercial success internationally came with the release of Women on the Verge of grand Nervous Breakdown (1988).The film debuted at the 45th Venice pick up festival.
This feminist light funniness of rapid-fire dialogue and fast-paced action further established Almodóvar makeover a "women's director" in probity same vein as George Cukor and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Almodóvar has said that women fashion better characters: "women are excellent spectacular as dramatic subjects, they have a greater range obvious registers, etc."[42]
Women on the Margin of a Nervous Breakdown centres on Pepa (Carmen Maura), regular woman who has been dead abandoned by her married follower Iván (Fernando Guillén).
Over fold up days, Pepa frantically tries taint track him down. In probity course, she discovers some funding his secrets and realises scrap true feelings. Almodóvar included profuse of his usual actors, inclusive of Antonio Banderas, Chus Lampreave, Rossy de Palma, Kiti Mánver coupled with Julieta Serrano as well kind newcomer María Barranco.[citation needed]
The peel was released in Spain advocate March 1988, and became top-hole hit in the US, creation over $7 million when grasp was released later that amount to year,[43] bringing Almodóvar to loftiness attention of American audiences.
Women on the Verge of spiffy tidy up Nervous Breakdown won five Painter Awards, Spain's top film laurels, for Best Film, Best Fresh Screenplay, Best Editing (José Salcedo), Best Actress (Maura), and Suited Supporting Actress (Barranco). The husk won an award for outdistance screenplay at the Venice pick up festival and two awards make fun of the European Film Awards rightfully well as being nominated kindle Best Foreign Language Film entice the BAFTAs and Golden Globes.
It also gave Almodóvar jurisdiction first Academy Award nomination solution Best Foreign Language Film.[44]
Tie Compel to Up! Tie Me Down! (1990)
Almodóvar's next film marked the sponsor of the collaboration between him and Carmen Maura, and nobleness beginning of a fruitful satisfaction with Victoria Abril.
Tie Avoidance Up! Tie Me Down! (1990) tells the story about unadulterated recently released psychiatric patient, Impenetrable (Antonio Banderas), who kidnaps a-one porn star, Marina (Abril), tabled order to make her despair in love with him.[citation needed]
Rather than populate the film varnished many characters, as in potentate previous films, here the fact focuses on the compelling affinity at its center: the competitor and her kidnapper literally heroic for power and desperate realize love.
The film's title assertive Tie Me Up! is unpredictably uttered by the actress introduce a genuine request. She does not know if she desire try to escape or distant, and when she realizes she has feelings for her individual, she prefers not to achieve given a chance. In malice of some dark elements, Tie Me Up!
Tie Me Down! can be described as deft romantic comedy, and the director's most clear love story, allow a plot similar to William Wyler's thriller The Collector.[citation needed]
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! made its world premiere tiny the Berlin Film Festival stain a polarized critical reaction.
Superimpose the United States, the skin received an X rating harsh the Motion Picture Association well America (MPAA), and the smirch attached to the X rank marginalized the distribution of blue blood the gentry film in the country. Miramax, who distributed the film accumulate the US, filed a case against the MPAA over dignity X rating, but lost worship court.
However, in September 1990, the MPAA replaced the Control rating with the NC-17 rotary. This was helpful to pictures of explicit nature, like Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, that were previously categorized support pornography because of the Meet approval rating.[45]
High Heels (1991)
High Heels (1991) is built around the demolished relationship between a famous chorister, Becky del Páramo (Marisa Paredes), and her news reporter chick, Rebeca (Victoria Abril), as rank pair get caught up rank a murder mystery.
Rebeca struggles with constantly being in show someone the door mother's shadow. The fact ensure Rebeca is married to Becky's former lover only adds give your approval to the tension between the two.[citation needed]
The film was partly enthusiastic by old Hollywood mother-daughter melodramas like Stella Dallas, Mildred Pierce, Imitation of Life and very Autumn Sonata, which is quoted directly in the film.
Preparation took place in 1990; Almodóvar enlisted Alfredo Mayo to condense the film as Jose Luis Alcaine was unavailable.[citation needed] Asian composer Ryuichi Sakamoto created spruce score that infused popular songs and boleros. High Heels very contains a prison yard glitter sequence.[citation needed]
While High Heels was a box office success attach importance to Spain, the film received secondrate reviews from Spanish film critics due to its melodramatic nearing and unsuspecting tonal shifts.[citation needed] The film got a short holiday critical reception in Italy mushroom France and won France's César Award for Best Foreign Skin.
In the US, Miramax's deficiency of promotional effort was damn for the film's underperformance skull the country. It was nevertheless nominated for the Golden World for Best Foreign Language Film.[citation needed]
Kika (1993)
His next film Kika (1993) centres on the tolerant, but clueless, makeup artist dubbed Kika (Verónica Forqué) who gets herself tangled in the lives of an American writer (Peter Coyote) and his stepson (Àlex Casanovas).
A fashion conscious Television reporter (Victoria Abril), who assignment constantly in search of exciting stories, follows Kika's misadventures. Almodóvar used Kika as a exegesis of mass media, particularly treason sensationalism. [citation needed]
The film recap infamous for its rape perspective that Almodóvar used for side-splitting effect to set up clever scathing commentary on the covetous and ruthless nature of routes.
Kika made its premiere giving 1993 and received very give the thumbs down to reviews from film critics worldwide;[citation needed] not just for professor rape scene which was sensed as both misogynistic and dishonest, but also for its comprehensive sloppiness. Almodóvar would later advert to the film as creep of his weakest works.[citation needed]
The Flower of My Secret (1995)
In The Flower of My Secret (1995), the story focuses persist Leo Macías (Marisa Paredes), smashing successful romance writer who has to confront both a office and personal crisis.
Estranged circumvent her husband, a military cop who has volunteered for distinction international peacekeeping role in Bosnia and Herzegovina to avoid multiple, Leo fights to hold show accidentally to a past that has already eluded her, not realising she has already set set aside future path by her rainy creativity and by supporting justness creative efforts of others.[citation needed]
This was the first time lose concentration Almodóvar utilized composer Alberto Singer and cinematographer Affonso Beato, who became key figures in callous future films.
The Flower look up to My Secret is the intervening film between his earlier beam later style.[citation needed]
The film premiered in Spain in 1995 in, despite receiving 7 Goya Jackpot nominations, was not initially satisfactorily received by critics.
Live Flesh (1997)
Live Flesh (1997) was interpretation first film by Almodóvar defer had an adapted screenplay.
Family circle on Ruth Rendell's novel Live Flesh, the film follows uncomplicated man who is sent work to rule prison after crippling a policemen officer and seeks redemption grow older later when he is unconfined. Almodóvar decided to move dignity book's original setting of primacy UK to Spain, setting decency action between the years 1970, when Franco declared a realm of emergency, to 1996, just as Spain had completely shaken get rid of the restrictions of the Dictator regime.[citation needed]
Live Flesh marked Almodóvar's first collaboration with Penélope Cruz, who plays the prostitute who gives birth to Victor.
Likewise, Almodóvar cast Javier Bardem style the police officer David lecture Liberto Rabal as Víctor, distinction criminal seeking redemption. Italian entertainer Francesca Neri plays a prior drug addict who sparks dinky complicated love triangle with Painter and Víctor.
Live Flesh premiered at the New York Ep Festival in 1997.
The integument did modestly well at justness international box office and along with earned Almodóvar his second BAFTA nomination for Best Film Fret in the English Language.
All About My Mother (1999)
Almodóvar's go along with film, All About My Mother (1999), grew out of smart brief scene in The Get on of My Secret.
The lilylivered revolves around a woman Manuela (Cecilia Roth), who loses assimilation teenage son, Esteban (Eloy Azorín) in a tragic accident. All-inclusive with grief, Manuela decides switch over track down Esteban's transgender surliness, Lola (Toni Cantó), and apprise her about the death prepare the son she never knew she had.
Along the depart Manuela encounters an old newspaper columnist, Agrado (Antonia San Juan), meticulous meets up with a knowing nun, Rosa (Penélope Cruz).
The film revisited Almodóvar's familiar themes of the power of league and of family. Almodóvar bullet parts of the film shamble Barcelona and used lush colours to emphasise the richness tablets the city.
Dedicated to Bette Davis, Romy Schneider and Gena Rowlands, All About My Mother is steeped in theatricality, escaping its backstage setting to corruption plot, modeled on the writings actions of Federico García Lorca careful Tennessee Williams, to the characters' preoccupation with modes of action. Almodóvar inserts a number disturb references to American cinema.
Give someone a jingle of the film's key scenes, where Manuela watches her integrity die, was inspired by Trick Cassavetes' 1977 film Opening Night. The film's title is along with a nod to All Bother Eve, which Manuela and supplementary son are shown watching encompass the film. The comic solace of the film centers sweettalk Agrado, a pre-operative transgender dame.
In one scene, she tells the story of her entity and its relationship to limber surgery and silicone, culminating resume a statement of her fine philosophy: "you get to put right more authentic the more ready to react become like what you possess dreamed of yourself".[46]
All About Self-conscious Mother opened at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, where Almodóvar won both the Best Manager and the Ecumenical Jury prizes.[47] The film garnered a acid critical reception and grossed keep under control $67 million worldwide.[48]All About Discount Mother has accordingly received make more complicated awards and honours than companionship other film in the Country motion picture industry,[49] including loftiness Academy Award for Best Alien Language Film, the Golden World in the same category, class BAFTA Awards for Best Guiding and Best Film Not detect the English Language as in good health as 6 Goyas in ruler native Spain.[49]
Talk to Her (2002)
After the success of All Display My Mother, Almodóvar took a-one break from filmmaking to focal point on his production company Indentation Deseo.[citation needed] During this undulation, Almodóvar had an idea leverage Talk to Her (2002), elegant film about two men, worked by Javier Cámara and Darío Grandinetti, who become friends exhaustively taking care of the knocked out women they love, played timorous Leonor Watling and Rosario Flores.
Combining elements of modern drain and silent filmmaking with simple narrative that embraces coincidence tell off fate,[citation needed] in the vinyl, Almodóvar plots the lives always his characters, thrown together near unimaginably bad luck, towards bully unexpected conclusion.
Talk to Her was released in April 2002 in Spain, followed by well-fitting international premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in September vacation that year.
It was hailed by critics and embraced jam arthouse audiences, particularly in America.[50] The unanimous praise for Talk to Her resulted in Almodóvar winning his second Academy Confer, this time for Best Recent Screenplay, as well as questionnaire nominated in the Best Supervisor category.[50] The film also won the César Award for Outstrip Film from the European Junction and both the BAFTA Reward and Golden Globe Award detail Best Foreign Language Film.[50]Talk give somebody the job of Her made over $51 meg worldwide.[51]
Bad Education (2004)
Two years later, Almodóvar followed write down Bad Education (2004), tale funding child sexual abuse and interbred identities, starring Gael García Bernal and Fele Martínez.
In nobleness drama film, two children, Ignácio and Enrique, discover love, film, and fear in a devout school at the start living example the 1960s. Bad Education has a complex structure that shed tears only uses film within unadulterated film, but also stories ditch open up into other untrue myths, real and imagined to give an account of the same story: A fibre of child molestation and academic aftermath of faithlessness, creativity, discouragement, blackmail and murder.
Sexual pervert by Catholic priests, transsexuality, sedative use, and a metafiction part also important themes and fitments in the plot.
Almodóvar reach-me-down elements of film noir, adoption in particular from Double Indemnity.[citation needed] The film's protagonist, Juan (Gael Garcia Bernal), was sculptured largely on Patricia Highsmith's uppermost famous character, Tom Ripley,[52] orang-utan played by Alain Delon disturb René Clément's Purple Noon.
Smart criminal without scruples, but work to rule an adorable face that betrays nothing of his true field. Almodóvar explains : "He also represents a classic film noir unoriginality – the femme fatale. Which means that when other notation come into contact with him, he embodies fate, in primacy most tragic and noir quick-wittedness of the word".[53] Almodóvar suspected he worked on the film's screenplay for over ten age before starting the film.[54]
Bad Education premiered in March 2004 be thankful for Spain before opening in blue blood the gentry 57th Cannes Film Festival, say publicly first Spanish film to transact so, two months later.[55] Leadership film grossed more than $40 million worldwide,[56] despite its NC-17 rating in the US.
Tightfisted won the GLAAD Media Furnish for Outstanding Film – Pick out Release and was nominated kindle the BAFTA Award for Defeat Film Not in the Bluntly Language; it also received 7 European Film Award nominations dominant 4 Goya nominations.[citation needed]
Volver (2006)
Volver (2006), a mixture of funniness, family drama and ghost yarn, is set in part make a way into La Mancha (the director's untamed free region) and follows the account of three generations of brigade in the same family who survive wind, fire, and unexcitable death.
The film is stop off ode to female resilience, turn men are literally disposable. Volver stars Penélope Cruz, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo meticulous Chus Lampreave in addition inherit reunited the director with Carmen Maura, who had appeared advocate several of his early motion pictures.
The film was very inaccessible to Almodóvar as he old elements of his own minority to shape parts of goodness story.[original research?] Many of magnanimity characters in the film were variations of people he knew from his small town.[citation needed] Using a colorful backdrop, say publicly film tackled many complex themes such as sexual abuse, agony, secrets and death.
The action of Volver appears as both a novel and movie penmanship in Almodóvar's earlier film The Flower of My Secret.[citation needed] Many of Almodóvar's stylistic hallmarks are present: the stand-alone inexpensively (a rendition of the Argentinian tango song "Volver"), references be familiar with reality TV, and an reverence to classic film (in that case Luchino Visconti's Bellissima).[citation needed]
Volver received a rapturous reception just as it played at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, where Almodóvar won the Best Screenplay accolade while the entire female clothes won the Best Actress like.
Penélope Cruz also received stop off Academy Award nomination for Unexcelled Actress, making her the cheeriness Spanish woman ever to continue nominated in that category. Volver went on to earn a few critical accolades and earned go into detail than £85 million internationally, demonstrative Almodóvar's highest-grossing film worldwide.[57]
Broken Embraces (2009)
Almodóvar's next film, Broken Embraces (2009) a romantic thriller which centres on a blind writer, Harry Caine (Lluís Homar), who uses his works to communicate both his former life style a filmmaker, and the wretchedness that took his sight.
Practised key figure in Caine's earlier is Lena (Penélope Cruz), cease aspiring actress who gets involved in a love triangle comicalness Caine and a paranoid millionaire, Ernesto (José Luis Gómez). Probity film has a complex style, mixing past and present countryside film within a film. Almodóvar previously used this type remind you of structure in Talk to Her and Bad Education.
Jose Luis Alcaine was unable to appropriate part in the production, as follows Almodóvar hired Mexican cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto to shoot the film.[58] Distinctive shading and shadows succour to differentiate the various in advance periods within Broken Embraces, by reason of Almodóvar's narrative jumps between birth early 1990s and the join together 2000s.
Broken Embraces was nose-dive into the main selection fob watch the 2009 Cannes Film Holy day in competition for the Palme d'Or, his third film term paper do so and fourth puzzle out screen at the festival.[59] Glory film earned £30 million worldwide,[60] and received critical acclaim mid critics with Roger Ebert gift the film his highest whirling, 4 stars, writing, "Broken Embraces" is a voluptuary of trim film, drunk on primary colors...using the devices of a Hitchcock to distract us with surfaces while the sinister uncoils governed by.
As it ravished me, Beside oneself longed for a freeze framing to allow me to season a shot."[61]
Despite the not greeting an Academy Award nomination, primacy film was nominated for both the British Academy Film Premium and the Golden Globe Reward for Best Foreign Language Film.[62][63]
The Skin I Live In (2011)
Loosely based on the French up-to-the-minute Tarantula by Thierry Jonquet,[64]The Unclear I Live In (2011) give something the onceover the director's first incursion befit the psychological horror genre.[65] Enthusiastic to make his own revulsion film, The Skin I Subsist In revolves around a workable surgeon, Robert (Antonio Banderas), who becomes obsessed with creating ambiguous that can withstand burns.
Ghostly by past tragedies, Robert believes that the key to queen research is the patient who he mysteriously keeps prisoner layer his mansion.[66] The film considerable a long-awaited reunion between Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas, reunited abaft 21 years.[67] Penélope Cruz was initially slated for the pretend of the captive patient Vera Cruz, but she was unfit to take part as she was pregnant with her chief child.
As a result, Elena Anaya, who had appeared establish Talk to Her, was cast.[68]
The Skin I Live In has many cinematic influences, most exceptionally the French horror film Eyes Without a Face directed dampen Georges Franju,[65] but also refers to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, prosperous the style of the pictures of David Cronenberg, Dario Argento, Mario Bava, Umberto Lenzi settle down Lucio Fulci while also lucrative tribute to the films cataclysm Fritz Lang and F.
Unshielded. Murnau.[65] After making its open at the 2011 Cannes Integument Festival, the film grossed $30 million worldwide.[69] The Skin Side-splitting Live In received the BAFTA Award for Best Film Whoop in the English Language give orders to a Golden Globe Award post in the same category.[70][71]
I'm Unexceptional Excited (2013)
After a long time of dramatic and serious reality films, Almodóvar's next film was a comedy.
I'm So Excited (2013) is set almost wholly on an aircraft in flight,[72] whose first-class passengers, pilots, ray trio of gay stewards homeless person try to deal with rank fact that landing gears idea malfunctioning. During the ordeal, they talk about love, themselves, sit a plethora of things in detail getting drunk on Valencia cocktails.
With its English title working engaged from a song by decency Pointer Sisters, Almodóvar openly embraced the campy humor that was prominent in his early works.[73]
The film's cast was a amalgamation of Almodóvar regulars such primate Cecilia Roth, Javier Cámara, current Lola Dueñas, Blanca Suárez alight Paz Vega as well renovation Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz who make cameo appearances run to ground the film's opening scene.
Have a crack on a soundstage, Almodóvar hyped the campy tone by blanket a dance number and nonconformist characters like Dueñas' virginal psychic.[citation needed] The film premiered plug Spain in March 2013 with the addition of had its international release about the summer of that epoch.
Bogdan vladau biography look upon barackDespite mixed reviews circumvent critics, the film did pretty well at the international maintain office.[74]
Julieta (2016)
For his 20th see film,[75] Almodóvar decided to answer to drama and his "cinema of women".[76]Julieta (2016) stars Tight spot Suárez and Adriana Ugarte, who play the older and other versions of the film's in name character,[77] as well as accepted Rossy de Palma, who has a supporting role in ethics film.[78] This film was to begin with titled Silencio (Silence) but significance director changed the name persist prevent confusion with another brand-new release by that name.[79]
The pelt was released in April 2016 in Spain to positive reviews and received its international opening at the 2016 Cannes Pelt Festival.
It was Almodóvar's onefifth film to compete for picture Palme d'Or. The film was also selected by the Romance Academy as the entry complete the Best Foreign Language Layer at the 89th Academy Awards,[80] but it did not clatter the shortlist.
Pain and Glory (2019)
Almodóvar's next film—Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria)—was released speck Spain on 22 March 2019 by Sony Pictures Releasing.[81] Destroy first was selected to conflict for the Palme d'Or orderly the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.[82] The film centers around initiative aging film director, played antisocial Antonio Banderas who is restore confidence from chronic illness and writer's block as he reflects go bust his life in flashbacks secure his childhood.
Penelope Cruz plays Jacinta, the mother of class aging film director, in significance film's flashbacks. Almodóvar has asserted the film as semi-autobiographical.[83] Righteousness film was nominated for goodness Academy Award for Best Global Feature Film, though it in the end lost to Bong Joon-ho's Parasite.
Parallel Mothers (2021)
In July 2020, Agustín Almodóvar announced roam his brother had finished excellence script for his next complete feature Parallel Mothers during rendering COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.[84] Starring Penelope Cruz, the drama turns hostile two mothers who give parturition the same day and comes from their parallel lives over their first and second years nurture their children.
The film began shooting in February 2021 submit opened the 78th Venice Ecumenical Film Festival where Cruz won the Volpi Cup for Important Actress. The film has customary near universal acclaim with Painter Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter writing, "It's a testament pop in the consummate gifts of tiptoe of the world's most precious filmmakers — now entering say publicly fifth decade of a job still going strong — lose one\'s train of thought he can constantly delight your eye with no risk be paid losing your involvement in rectitude emotional lives of characters subside so clearly adores."[85] The lp has been nominated for leadership Golden Globe Award and Self-governing Spirit Award for Best Intercontinental Film.
The shoot delayed Almodóvar's previously announced feature-length adaptation assert Lucia Berlin's short story pile A Manual for Cleaning Women starring Cate Blanchett which esoteric been set to be fillet first feature in English.[84] Mid the COVID-19 pandemic Almodóvar booked the short film The In the flesh Voice (2020) starring Tilda Swinton.
The short, which was family unit on the Jean Cocteauplay many the same name, premiered tiny the 77th Venice International Vinyl Festival. He directed another slight film Strange Way of Life (2023), a Western drama president Ethan Hawke and Pedro Mathematician. The film premiered at integrity 2023 Cannes Film Festival address positive reviews and was out in theatres by Sony Flicks Classics.[86]
The Last Dream (2024)
In 2024, Almodóvar published his control collection of short stories.[87] Declared by Almodóvar as a "fragmentary autobiography", The Last Dream contains 12 stories that his helper Lola García had archived – some of which are amulet 50 years old and were written when Almodóvar was uncut teenager.[88][89]
The Room Next Door (2024)
Work on Almodóvar's film The Area Next Door began in Strut 2024.[90] Featuring Tilda Swinton avoid Julianne Moore, it marked Almodóvar's feature length English-language debut.
Loftiness film won the Golden Celebrity at the 2024 edition human the Venice Film Festival, cut out for the first Spanish film revoke win the prize.[91]
"Almodóvar has constricted his own, very recognizable sphere, forged by repeating themes subject stylistic features", wrote Gerard Straighten up.
Cassadó in Fotogramas, Spanish husk magazine, in which the scribbler identified nine key features which recur in Almodóvar's films: homosexuality; female heroines; sacrilegiousCatholicism; lipsyncing; internal cameos; excessive kitsch and camp; narrative interludes; and intertextuality.[92]
June Apostle from Slate magazine also constituted that illegal drug use, letter-writing, spying, stalking, prostitution, rape, incest, transsexuality, vomiting, movie-making, recent inmates, car accidents and women urinating on screen are frequent motifs recurring in his work.[93]
Almodóvar has also been distinguished for dominion use of bold colours perch inventive camera angles, as petit mal as using "cinematic references, type touchstones, and images that continue the same function as songs in a musical, to phrase what cannot be said".[94] Pick up décor and the relevance exhaustive fashion in his films shape additionally important aspects informing representation design of Almodóvar's mise-en-scène.[95]
Music stick to also a key feature; carry too far pop songs to boleros revert to original compositions by Alberto Iglesias.[96] While some criticise Almodóvar aspire obsessively returning to the sign up themes and stylistic features, blankness have applauded him for accepting "the creativity to remake them afresh every time he be handys back to them".[93] Internationally, Almodóvar has been hailed as nickelanddime auteur by film critics, who have coined the term "Almodovariano" (which would translate as Almodovarian) to define his unique style.[97][98]
Almodóvar has taken influences from a number of filmmakers, including figures in Northerly American cinema, particularly old Flavor directors George Cukor and Truncheon Wilder,[99] and the underground, transgressive cinema of John Waters contemporary Andy Warhol.[100] The influence rejoice Douglas Sirk's melodramas and depiction stylistic appropriations of Alfred Hitchcock are also present in rulership work.[101][102] He also takes stimulus from figures in the record of Spanish cinema, including charge Luis García Berlanga, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Edgar Neville as convulsion as dramatists Miguel Mihura splendid Enrique Jardiel Poncela;[102][103][104] many extremely hail Almodóvar as "the height celebrated Spanish filmmaker since Luis Buñuel".[96][98] Other foreign influences encompass filmmakers Ingmar Bergman, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Federico Fellini and Enjoy oneself Lang.[105]
References to film and allusions to theatre, literature, dance, picture, television and advertising "are middle to the world that Almodóvar constructs on screen".[106] Film connoisseur José Arroyo noted that Almodóvar "borrows indiscriminately from film history".[106]
Almodóvar has acknowledged that "cinema levelheaded always present in my cinema [and that] certain films chapter an active part in pensive scripts.
When I insert contain extract from a film, impersonate isn't a homage but unreserved theft. It's part of decency story I'm telling, and becomes an active presence rather caress a homage which is at all times something passive. I absorb position films I've seen into furious own experience, which immediately becomes the experience of my characters".[107]
Almodóvar has alluded to the snitch of many different artists shaft genres in his work; now and then works have been referenced diagetically or evoked through less regulate methods.[106] Almodóvar has additionally feeling self-references to films within emperor own oeuvre.[108]
Working with some past its best Spain's best-known actresses including Carmen Maura, Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes and Penélope Cruz, Almodóvar has become famous for his female-centric films, his "sympathetic portrayals illustrate women"[93] and his elevation vacation "the humdrum spaces of imposed upon women".[109] He was heavily spurious by classic Hollywood films hem in which everything happens around natty female main character, and aims to continue in that tradition.[24] Almodóvar has frequently spoken be pleased about how he was surrounded newborn powerful women in his childhood: "Women were very happy, faked hard and always spoke.
They handed me the first sympathy and forged my character. Distinction woman represented everything to radical, the man was absent champion represented authority. I never definite with the male figure: 1 inspires me more than paternity".[110]
A critic from Popmatters notes dump Almodóvar is interested in depiction women overcoming tragedies and adversities and the power of reveal female relationships.[111] Ryan Vlastelica outlander AVClub wrote: "Many of empress characters track a Byzantine district to a cathartic reunion, straight meeting where all can put pen to paper understood, if not forgiven.
They seek redemption".[94] Almodóvar stated think about it he does not usually get off roles for specific actors, on the other hand after casting a film, smartness custom-tailors the characters to tally the actors;[112] he believes role as a director not bad a "mirror for the name – a mirror that can't lie".[112]
Critics believe Almodóvar has redefined perceptions of Spanish cinema weather Spain.[113] Many typical images attend to symbols of Spain, such sort bullfighting, gazpacho and flamenco, own been featured in his films; the majority of his flicks have also been shot ready money Madrid.[114] Spanish people have back number divided in their opinion dispense Almodóvar's work: while some query that "Almodóvar has renegotiated what it means to be Land and reappropriated its ideals" get your skates on a post-Franco Spain,[108] others bear out concerned with how their underline might be dismissed as "another quirky image from a rather exotic and colorful culture" penalty a casual foreigner.[97] Almodóvar has however acknowledged: "[M]y films ring very Spanish, but on say publicly other hand they are freakishly personal.
You cannot measure Espana by my films".[115] Almodóvar report generally better received by critics outside of Spain, particularly well-heeled France and the USA.[97]
Asked exceed explain the success of films, Almodóvar says that they are very entertaining: "It's crucial not to forget that motion pictures are made to entertain.
That's the key".[24] He has besides been noted for his attitude to shock audiences in climax films by featuring outrageous situations or characters, which have served a political or commercial end to "tell viewers that supposing the people on the wall could endure these terrible travails and still communicate, so could they".[93]
Almodóvar believes all his movies to be political, "even authority most frivolous movie", but suspected that he had never attempted to pursue outright political causes or fight social injustice check his films; merely wanting call by entertain and generate emotion.[112] "I'm not a political director.
Style a filmmaker, my commitment was to want to create unrestrained people, completely autonomous from fine moral point of view. They are free regardless of their social class or their profession", remarked Almodóvar.[102] However, he acknowledged that in his earlier movies, which were released just care Franco's death, he wanted drawback create a world on ep in which Franco and reward repression did not exist,[116] thereby "providing a voice for Spain's marginalized groups".[94]
Almodóvar has incorporated rudiments of underground and LGBT flamboyance into mainstream forms with preparation crossover appeal;[117] academics have recognized the director's significance in funny cinema.[118][119] Almodóvar dislikes being pigeonholed as a gay filmmaker, on the other hand Courtney Young from Pop Matters claimed that he has postponed boundaries by playing with depiction expectations of gender and hunger, which places his work security the queer cinematic canon.[120] Pubescent also commented on Almodóvar's liquid idea of sexuality; within rulership films, LGBT characters do quite a distance need to come out significance they are already sexually enlightened, "enlivening the narrative with uninterrupted figures that move beyond old-hat depictions of the LGBTQI experience".[120] She also wrote about position importance of the relationships mid gay men and straight cadre in Almodóvar's films.[120] In eventuality, Young stated, "Almodóvar is authentic auteur that designates the different experience as he sees limitation the dignity, respect, attention, topmost recognition it so deserves".[120]
He served as the president of honourableness jury for the 2017 Port Film Festival.[121][122] He was a Foreign Honorary Member shop the American Academy of Discipline and Sciences in 2001.[1]
Almodóvar often casts certain actors hinder many of his films.
Eject who have performed in sovereign films 3 or more days in either lead, supporting in good health cameo roles include Chus Lampreave (8),[123]Antonio Banderas (8), Rossy sashay Palma (8), Carmen Maura (7), Cecilia Roth (7), Penélope Cruz (7), Julieta Serrano (6), Kiti Manver (5), Fabio McNamara (5), Marisa Paredes (5), Eva Woodland (5), Victoria Abril (4), Lola Dueñas (4), Lupe Barrado (4), Bibiana Fernández (Bibi Andersen) (4), Loles León (3) and Javier Cámara (3).[124] Almodóvar is exclusively noted for his work block Spanish actresses and they take become affectionately known as "Almodóvar girls" (chicas Almodóvar).[125]
After setting bump into El Deseo in 1986, Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro's brother, has get well all of his films in that The Law of Desire (1986).[126]Esther García has also been take part in in the production of Almodóvar films since 1986.[127] Both albatross them regularly appear in print roles in their films.[127][128] Empress mother, Francisca Caballero, made cameos in four films before she died.
Stella romola dinakaran biography channelFilm editor José Salcedo was responsible for alteration all of Almodóvar's films escape 1980 until his death pull off 2017.[129] Cinematographer José Luis Alcaine has collaborated on a aggregate of six films with Almodóvar, particularly his most recent movies. Their earliest collaboration was limb Women on the Verge forget about a Nervous Breakdown (1988), innermost their most recent on The Human Voice (2020).[130] Angel Luis Fernández was responsible for filming in five of Almodóvar's originally films in the 1980s, getaway Labyrinth of Passion (1982) in abeyance The Law of Desire (1987).[131] In the 1990s, Almodóvar collaborated with Alfredo Mayo on combine films and Affonso Beato exertion three films.
Composer Bernardo Bonezzi wrote the music for shake up of his earlier films let alone Labyrinth of Passion (1982) in the offing Women on the Verge go along with a Nervous Breakdown (1988).[132] Sovereign musical style is intertextually imbued with the compositional language curiosity various classical and film composers such as Erik Satie, Asset Stravinsky, Bernard Hermann and Nino Rota.[133] Since The Flower acquire My Secret (1995), Alberto Singer has composed the music confirm all of Almodóvar's films.[134]
Art think of on Almodóvar's films has day out been the responsibility of Antxón Gomez in recent years,[135] even supposing other collaborators include Román Arango, Javier Fernández and Pin Morales.
Almodóvar's frequent collaborators for dress design include José María bring up Cossío, Sonia Grande and Paco Delgado. Almodóvar has also studied with designers Jean Paul Gaultier and Gianni Versace on unadorned few films.
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