Tribute No 5 - Pedro Almodovar

[zorian]

I return after a long time to the tributes to great directors (in my opinion).
The first tributes were:
http://www.infobeto.com/forum/f96/afierwma-no-1-afoi-koen-95481/
http://www.infobeto.com/forum/f96/afierwma-no-2-quentin-tarantino-95944/
http://www.infobeto.com/forum/f96/afierwma-no-3-stanley-kubrick-96434/
http://www.infobeto.com/forum/f96/afierwma-no-4-emir-kusturica-103200/


The series has the greatest Spanish director, Pedro Almodovar. Once again I will start from recent films to the oldest, upside down, like the crab.

The Skin I Live (2011)
(original title: La piel que habito)
The last Spanish movie I saw was a real disappointment. Without rage, without the magic of Almodovar, only obsessions. The director who has given us poetic films (All about my mother), unprecedented films (Women on the verge of nervous crisis, Volver), great films (Matador, My Secret Flower etc) has fallen very late. With the exception of Volver, his films from 2000 and then have nothing to do with what he greatly offered before.
In this film we just see a stuck Banderas make fun
Grade: 3 / 10

 

[zorian]

Cracked Hugs

Cracked Hugs (2009)
(original title: Los abrazos rotos)
Very good this Spanish film, with intense passion flowing abundantly in their films, with a poetic look, with a lovely Penteli Cruz. But she misses something that will spit it out. I do not know what this is, I can not express it. I just say that by finishing the film I was missing something to characterize it greatly. However, he is one of his best in recent years.
Grade: 7 / 10

 

[zorian]

Come back

Rewind (2006)
(original title: Volver)

Wonderful movie! Classical Almodovar, taken out of the old! With such films I learned, these films are what I like from Almodovar. Tangles, tangles, tangles, and in the end unleash the tangle in the most magical way.
Grade: 9 / 10

 

[zorian]

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Poor Education (2004)
(original title: La mala education)

The tribute to Almondovar was left in the background, for I have disappeared over the last few months. So I continue with bad education, a film that deals with issues like the Spanish director: pedophilia (mostly religious), transvestite, drugs, and others that give a mixture of dynamite. The movie is good but difficult and it is not easy to see it all, especially those who are not familiar with the Spanish madness. However, it is a purely Almontoric film and I think it would be nice to the director's friends.
Grade: 6 / 10

 

[zorian]

Answer: Go Back

Speak to her (2002)
(original title: Hable con ella)

Another film that comes out of Almondovar's terrible imagination. The relationship between someone who is in a coma and someone who is watching him. Terrible scene with the dwarf man entering the "gate of hell". Without reaching great levels, good as the one above.
Grade: 6 / 10

 

[zorian]

Answer: Go Back

All About My Mother (1999)
(original title: Tódo sobre mi madre)

This terrible poetry of this Spanish film, I think it's one of the classic films one should see if he wants to see what a shame is that Almondovar.
Grade: 9 / 10

 

[zorian]

Answer: Tribute No 5 - Pedro Almodovar

Live Flesh (1997)
(original title: Carne Tremula)

This is the last film of the "golden decade" of the Spanish director, of the '90s where a series of films (Feel Me, High Heels, Kika, My Secret Flower, Live Flesh) established what is considered to be Almodovar cinema. If one wants to have a view of the Spanish direction, these are definitely movies to be seen.
Very good Javier Bardem in the role of the disabled and by the chance to mention that Almondvar has made world-wide cinema names that have made great careers such as Bardem, Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, in addition to his own spiolent muses, which I will mention in another post.

Grade: 7 / 10

 

[zorian]

Answer: Tribute No 5 - Pedro Almodovar

My Secret Flower (1995)
(original title: La flor de mi secreto)

A film by Pedro Almodovar written, cut and stitched for one of his muses, Marisa Paredes. As I have written above, many are the Spanish muses of the director and one of them is Paredes. In this film she plays another amazing bad, Rossy De Palma. Other Spanish spirits are Victoria Abril and Carmen Maura, who have starred in previous films.

Grade: 6 / 10

 

[zorian]

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Kika (1993)

Atame's directorial madness (we'll tell you in a next post) is going on in the best way to Kika. Almondovar once again mixes the deck with a tremendous mastery, creates an incredible bobble and in the end the skein unfolds in the unique way the Spanish director has. Fearful of the scene of racketeering of Kika and police officers trying to get away and capture the rapist
From the classic Spanish movies!

Grade: 7 / 10

 

[zorian]

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High Heels (1991)
(original title: Tacones Lejanos)

I personally consider it one of the best films of the Spanish director. Of course, not everything that "haunts" his films, love triangles, transvestites, etc. is missing, but here the tangle is not so confusing, so it is easier to watch the plot and in addition, in unrolling the tangle, Almondovar significantly affects issues, such as parent-child relationships, marriages without substance, etc.
I think it's worth watching for one more truce of this film, the music that surrounds her, which is amazing!

Grade: 9 / 10

 

[zorian]

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Please! (1990)
(original title: Atame!)

In this film Almontovar, starting the great (for him) late '90, we see an amazing crescendo of Antonio Banderas and Victoria Abril, who give their all in. The first as a kidnapper-in love with the second, who at first did not want ... then asked what the title of the film says!
I think it's also one of the Spanish's must see movies.

Grade: 8 / 10

 

[zorian]

Answer: Tribute No 5 - Pedro Almodovar

Women on the verge of nervous crisis (1988)
(original title: Mujeres al borde de ataque de nervios)

An incredible social film by the Spanish director, with a gang of women "undressing" for a man, Ivan (not PAOK) ). All but one who got involved with a terrorist and has lost his eggs and lilacs. And Banderas in an incredible role trying to "calm" her. The famous stuff of Almondovar, extremely given!

Grade: 8 / 10

 

[zorian]

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The Law of Desire (1987)
(original title: La Ley del Deseo)

A year before Women ..... another, extremely special, Almondovar film had hit theaters. I think the film is aimed at a very "special audience". The Spaniard brings out his erotic homosexuals here and makes a movie that is very difficult to see if you are not a sister. Banderas constantly throws her into little boys, enraged by an unquenchable passion for a director. Difficult, very difficult movie and I personally watched it with a lot of effort.

Grade: 2 / 10

 

[zorian]

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Matador (1986)

This was the first Almondovar film I saw in 1987 on videotape and it was what made me watch The Spaniard all these years. Among the silly movies we saw then, as children, I saw Matador, which was like a fly with milk and "I stayed Pavlopoulos". Of course, if one sees it today, 28 years after it was released and with all that our eyes have seen all these years, one loses a lot from its incredible police plot, which in those years was something unexpected. Banderas as a child (also seen in the trailer), in their very youth most of the actors, many of them continued for years working with the director. I have seen it 4-5 more times since then and although one now knows the story, it is just as enjoyable to watch. I consider it one of the 5 best films of Almondovar.

Grade: 8 / 10

 

[The Scarecrow]

Answer: Tribute No 5 - Pedro Almodovar

Director of fraud.

 

[zorian]

Answer: Tribute No 5 - Pedro Almodovar

A Life Hassle (What have I done to deserve it (1984)
(original title: Que he hecho yo para merecer esto !!)

In spite of the negative commentary of the scarecrow, I continue to think unmistakably to Pedro Almodovar's first film. Besides, this and other 3s were left behind. This film, as is clear from her title, is a portrayal of the life of a housewife (Carmen Maura) who draws her madly. Without the confucius in the plot, which features the next Spanish films, in this movie things are quite simple, with some unexpected events. But it is far from the directorial confommation that Almondov creates in the other films. Just for Fun.

Grade: 5 / 10

 

[zorian]

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Sinful Nuns (1983)
(original title: Between tinieblas)

Indie film, from the first feature that Almontov turned. The subject is known for the Spaniard, who is often concerned with all the sin occurring in theological, educational, etc. houses. I do not think it has anything special like a movie that's worth seeing. However, OTE TV puts it very often, so anyone who has satellite and wants to dedicate 1,30 time to dazzle can do it.

Grade: 3 / 10

Scene

The whole film

 

[zorian]

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Passion Labyrinth (1982)
(original title: Labyrinth of Passion)

Another indifferent film by Almondov. Although the script is good evidence (son imaginary country dictator who want to kill him, the Banderas with high olfactory characteristics similar to those of the hero from the Ziskint Perfume), the Spaniard in his early directing steps do not have what it takes to go the movie high. In conclusion, we do not deserve the attention of Albondov's films until Matador.

Grade: 2 / 10

 

[zorian]

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Pepi, Louise, Bom and the Other Girls (1980)
(original title: Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del monton)

The first (regular) long Spanish film and the one that will close my tribute - to the past (of course, his latest film follows). Nothing here, just to say we're filming. As I have written above, it is not worth any film of Almondar until Madador.

Grade: 1 / 10

 

[zorian]

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I do not hold (2013)
(original title: Los amantes pajeros)

Almondovar's latest film is quite entertaining. Again a mess (Banderas and Cruz only show up for a few minutes at the beginning to "give" an explanation to the mess) in a flight, this time the director deliberately finds "easy" solutions to strange situations, since another is the logic of the film. I think very clearly in this film he is trying to deprive homosexuality but not only that. It is generally projected as normal, rather completely deaf situations. Something he did in his first works (and less in the rest) but then he did not have the right way, as a result of which he provoked too much, as in the "Law of Desire" for example. Here, on the contrary, the film is very "smart" and it is pleasant to watch by the rest of us, who are not gay. Very good, once again, in his role Javier Camara, who also played very well in "Mila tis".

Grade: 6 / 10