He's one of cinema's most visionary directors, and his films have shaped the way we see his country. So how does Pedro Almodóvar choose to portray Spain's catastrophic economic crisis? With an outrageous, sex-sozzled farce
Pedro Almodóvar is hobbling. He is also hopping mad. He has come into his Madrid office – where visitors are greeted by a massive album of Helmut Newton nudes – despite surgery on his knee the day before. Hence the hobble. But what really hurts him is that, forced to rest from his normally hectic routine of scriptwriting, the director has spent his convalescence watching the news. "Some days I try not to see the news at all," he says. "But yesterday I couldn't avoid it. It is all horrific."
Almodóvar's day in front of the television consuming endless stories of the country's economic woes, which have left a quarter of Spaniards out of work, has made him indignant.
Pedro Almodóvar is hobbling. He is also hopping mad. He has come into his Madrid office – where visitors are greeted by a massive album of Helmut Newton nudes – despite surgery on his knee the day before. Hence the hobble. But what really hurts him is that, forced to rest from his normally hectic routine of scriptwriting, the director has spent his convalescence watching the news. "Some days I try not to see the news at all," he says. "But yesterday I couldn't avoid it. It is all horrific."
Almodóvar's day in front of the television consuming endless stories of the country's economic woes, which have left a quarter of Spaniards out of work, has made him indignant.
- 4/27/2013
- by Giles Tremlett
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Fassbender, Shame Steve McQueen-Michael Fassbender's Shame: Sex Addiction at the Movies Directed by Steve McQueen (no relation to the star of Bullitt and The Getaway), and written by McQueen and playwright Abi Morgan, Shame was screened at the Venice and Telluride film festivals. Its next stop is the Toronto Film Festival later this month. McQueen's drama revolves around the dangers of sex addiction and troubled family relationships in our Internet-connected world where easy sex is always at everyone's fingertips (if you're really, really, but really lucky). Shame stars Michael Fassbender (McQueen's leading man in Hunger, Rochester in the latest Jane Eyre), Best Actress Academy Award nominee Carey Mulligan (An Education), James Badge Dale, Nicole Beharie, Hannah Ware, and Amy Hargreaves. "Driven by a brilliant, ferocious performance by Michael Fassbender, Shame is a real walk on the wild side, a scorching look at a case of...
- 9/5/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Madrid -- If Daniel Monzon's "Cell 211" took home the top prize at Sunday night's Goya awards ceremony in Madrid, Academy president Alex de la Iglesia's political savvy has been the talk of the town ever since.
De la Iglesia wooed Spain's prodigal son, Pedro Almodovar, for nearly a year in an effort to repair a schism that left Spain's most international director in self-exile, frustrated with what he deemed the academy's cold shoulder.
"I'm here because you have a very persistent president, who insisted until satisfied," Almodovar told the audience as they settled back into their seats after the standing ovation that welcomed him back into the fold.
The effort paid off with Almodovar's surprise entrance at center stage to an unsuspecting audience that included Spain's Culture Minister Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde, Almodovar muse Penelope Cruz and the entire Spanish film industry.
The move highlights the finesse De la Iglesia...
De la Iglesia wooed Spain's prodigal son, Pedro Almodovar, for nearly a year in an effort to repair a schism that left Spain's most international director in self-exile, frustrated with what he deemed the academy's cold shoulder.
"I'm here because you have a very persistent president, who insisted until satisfied," Almodovar told the audience as they settled back into their seats after the standing ovation that welcomed him back into the fold.
The effort paid off with Almodovar's surprise entrance at center stage to an unsuspecting audience that included Spain's Culture Minister Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde, Almodovar muse Penelope Cruz and the entire Spanish film industry.
The move highlights the finesse De la Iglesia...
- 2/17/2010
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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