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Sex. Drugs. Prostitution. Pedophilia. Rape. Pedro Almodovar has been able to translate some of the most delicate subjects to the big screen with grace and humor.
In the most indelible scene of "Broken Embraces" ("Los abrazos rotos"), Pedro Almodovar's latest vivid melodrama, Penelope Cruz plays dress-up.
Spanish director Pedro Almodovar unveiled a new film rich in the staples of a career that has earned him two Oscars: romance, sex, drama and lots of humor. But this time he's added a nod to his passion for moviemaking itself.
Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar joined tens of thousands of people in a march through the Spanish capital on Saturday to protest the war in Iraq and to demand the closure of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Pedro Almodovar's "Volver" — a comic drama about women making do without men — has been chosen to represent Spain among movies vying to be candidates for the best foreign film Oscar.
Polanski's Victim And Me - The Daily BeastAs a fellow child rape victim, hearing Roman Polanski's supporters cite his filmmaking to justify his freedom brings the injustice of that incident flooding back.
Almodovar to tell poet's storyExcerpt: "Decidme" would mark another career departure for Almodovar: a film based on true events, and framed — with flashbacks — by the course of a single night.
From Fourth-Run Fest Fiddle to All-Star Premiere Powerhouse
The Women of Pedro AlmodóvarIn the 1995 Almodóvar film The Flower of My Secret—a work that stands at the chronological midpoint between the director's earliest movies, with their DayGlo emotions and Benzedrine-driven plots, and the technically smoother and emo-tionally subtler films of the past few years …
Almodovar's early works to be resurrectedSpain's Oscar-winning film-maker Pedro Almodovar is to resurrect his provocative early films celebrating the explosion of sexual freedom and excess in Madrid after the death of Franco in 1975.
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