num_pages: 240
description: Pedro Almodovar … winner of a BAFTA for Best Director, 2000All About My Mother … Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film, 2000The huge international success of his latest feature, All About My Mother , has finally granted Pedro Almodovar the recognition he deserves, as the most artistically ambitious and commercially consistent film-maker in Europe.Frequently comic, often deadly serious, always visually glorious, his films range from the screwball comedy Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and the SM melodrama Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! to the almost classically austere Live Flesh . And, while questions of gender, nationality and sexuality have always been Almodovar’s concern, new subjects have been addressed in his more recent the corrosive effects of a deregulated Spanish media, the transition from dictatorship to democracy and, in All About My Mother , uncompromising explorations of the process of mourning.This new edition includes four new chapters, among which is a rare interview with Almodovar himself, a new preface and additional illustrations. Still the only study of its kind in English, it vigorously confirms its original argument, that beneath Almodovar’s genius for comedy and visual pleasure lies a film-maker whose work deserves to be taken with the utmost seriousness.
language: English
title: Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
titlecomplete: Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
genres: Queer, Spain, Film, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 66
publisher: Verso