A filmmaker's progress.(Pedro Almodovar)(Book review)

From: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Pedro Almodovar

by Marvin D'Lugo

University of Illinois Press, 176 pages, $19.95

FOR NEARLY A QUARTER of a century, Pedro Almodovar has been crafting films of increasing beauty and complexity. They are films that explore the political and cultural detritus of the Spanish psyche. Like all great art, they transcend their particularities to offer a vision of the human condition that resonates with all of us.

Almodovar once remarked, "I am not a gay director who does gay movies for a gay audience." But he does admit that gay culture informs his films, and anyone ...

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