Almodovar on Almodovar
Strauss, Frederic (EDT)
Baigneres, Yves (TRN)
Richard, Sam (TRN)
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BOOK SUMMARY
Pedro Almodóvars filmssuch as Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, All About My Mother, and Talk to Her, to name a feware colorful and deeply felt celebrations of life and love. The influence of these works, which have be
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Pedro Almod--†â€™Ãƒâ€šÃ‚³var's films--such as Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, All About My Mother, and Talk to Her, to name a few--are colorful and deeply felt celebrations of life and love. The influence of these works, which have been feted around the world, has been immense, and Almod--†â€™Ãƒâ€šÃ‚³var on Almod--†â€™Ãƒâ€šÃ‚³var tells the personal story of the man and his wonderfully vivid and outrageous vision.
Almod--†â€™Ãƒâ€šÃ‚³var came of age during an austere time in rural Spain: the 1950s, the age of the Cold War, of mambo, of Balenciaga, of the Korean War, of the Hungarian Revolution, of the death of Stalin. But none of these events bore any impact on his village. In response, Almod--†â€™Ãƒâ€šÃ‚³var proceeded to carve for himself a unique niche in contemporary cinema with films bursting with vibrant energy and vivid, primary colors--each frame saturated with passions, releasing a pure, visual, visceral emotion. In these frank and passionate conversations, Almod--†â€™Ãƒâ€šÃ‚³var discusses his astonishing life and career with a humor that is distinctly his own.
AUTHOR BIO
In 2002, Pedro Almodóvar was nominated for Best Director and received the Oscar for Best Screenplay for Talk to Her.
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"Pedro Almod--†â€™Ãƒâ€šÃ‚³var doesn't just make movies. Almod--†â€™Ãƒâ€šÃ‚³var is the movies. He revels in everything forbidden and forgiving that can transform life into art." --Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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ISBN: 0571231926
ISBN(13-digit): 9780571231928
Dewey Decimal: 791.43023/3092
Library of Congress: 2007280187
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 256
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