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->''"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."''

Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (born 25 September 1949) is a [[UsefulNotes/{{Spain}} Spanish]] director and screenwriter.

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.

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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! Filmography:
* ''Pepi, Luci, Bom'' (1980)
* ''Labyrinth of Passion'' (1982)
* ''Dark Habits'' (1983)
* ''What Have I Done to Deserve This?'' (1984)
* ''Film/{{Matador}}'' (1986)
* ''Law of Desire'' (1987)
* ''Film/WomenOnTheVergeOfANervousBreakdown'' (1988)
* ''Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!'' (1989)
* ''High Heels'' (1991)
* ''Kika'' (1993)
* ''La Flor de Mi Secreto'' (''The Flower of My Secret'') (1995)
* ''Carne trémula'' (''Live Flesh'') (1997)
* ''Film/AllAboutMyMother'' (1999)
* ''Film/TalkToHer'' (2002)
* ''Film/{{Bad Education|2004}}'' (2004)
* ''Film/{{Volver}}'' (''Return'') (2006)
* ''Broken Embraces'' (2009)
* ''Film/LaPielQueHabito'' (''The Skin I Live In'') (2011)
* ''I'm So Excited!'' (2013)
* ''Julieta'' (2016)
* ''Film/PainAndGlory'' (2019)
* ''Parallel Mothers'' (2021)
* ''Film/StrangeWayOfLife'' (2023)

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