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| 3 | ->''"I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion."'' |
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| 5 | Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (born 25 September 1949) is a [[UsefulNotes/{{Spain}} Spanish]] director and screenwriter. |
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| 7 | Iconic for his mastery of blending {{melodrama}}, comedy, and intelligent social commentary. He got his start in TheSeventies, shortly after the death of UsefulNotes/FranciscoFranco led to a massive opening and blossoming of modern Spanish culture, with film, music, and other arts being given an opportunity to experiment after four decades of repression. There were subcultures flying everywhere--while most had existed even in Franco's time, they were no longer forced to be underground. Almodovar--himself gay, a community that did not have a nice time under Franco's conservative regime--turns to this, and its relationship with what came before, for material. |
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| 9 | His style has gotten him attention abroad--one of the first postwar Spanish directors to do so. ''Women on the Verge of A Nervous Breakdown'', ''Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!'' (Spanish: ¡Átame!) - the film that had Hollywood racing to sign up Creator/{{Antonio Banderas}}, ''All About My Mother'', and ''Film/{{Volver}}'' all have great reputations outside of Spain--possibly [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff more than inside it]]. |
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| 12 | ! Filmography: |
| 13 | * ''Pepi, Luci, Bom'' (1980) |
| 14 | * ''Labyrinth of Passion'' (1982) |
| 15 | * ''Dark Habits'' (1983) |
| 16 | * ''What Have I Done to Deserve This?'' (1984) |
| 17 | * ''Film/{{Matador}}'' (1986) |
| 18 | * ''Law of Desire'' (1987) |
| 19 | * ''Film/WomenOnTheVergeOfANervousBreakdown'' (1988) |
| 20 | * ''Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!'' (1989) |
| 21 | * ''High Heels'' (1991) |
| 22 | * ''Kika'' (1993) |
| 23 | * ''La Flor de Mi Secreto'' (''The Flower of My Secret'') (1995) |
| 24 | * ''Carne trémula'' (''Live Flesh'') (1997) |
| 25 | * ''Film/AllAboutMyMother'' (1999) |
| 26 | * ''Film/TalkToHer'' (2002) |
| 27 | * ''Film/{{Bad Education|2004}}'' (2004) |
| 28 | * ''Film/{{Volver}}'' (''Return'') (2006) |
| 29 | * ''Broken Embraces'' (2009) |
| 30 | * ''Film/LaPielQueHabito'' (''The Skin I Live In'') (2011) |
| 31 | * ''I'm So Excited!'' (2013) |
| 32 | * ''Julieta'' (2016) |
| 33 | * ''Film/PainAndGlory'' (2019) |
| 34 | * ''Parallel Mothers'' (2021) |
| 35 | * ''Film/StrangeWayOfLife'' (2023) |
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