Wednesday 29 January 2014
Pedro Almodovar
Pedro Almodovar, the Spanish director who's first feature film was Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (1980) documented the life in Madrid at the time dealing with drugs, violence and female machoism. From this the theme of machoism and has carried its way into a number of his films he has made. A common actress in his film is Carmen Maura.
Many of Almodovar's films feature sex, often alternative sexuality and controversial sexuality, like Dark Habits which features a gay nun.He often deals with serious subject matter by using comedy to express his ideologies, an example is the film Labyrinth of Passion (1982) which involves an emperor, gay Islamic terrorist and nymphomaniac.
A modern film of his is Volver (2006) starring Penelope Cruz, which deals more with death and is more of a drama, but also is a comedy.
Almodovar can be seen as an example of auteur theory. With him being such a driving force in terms of creativity when it comes to making his films. Although, he does often work with the same cinematographer Jose' Luis Alcaine.
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