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“... at the mock sociology of the question, and since it occurs about two-thirds of the way through Pedro Almodóvar’s new film, Volver, we know better than to take it as mere filling, or even as offering any sort of information. First, because there are probably any number of towns in Spain that could compete for the title; and second, because we ...”

“... The Spirit of the Beehive, has its first British showing in cinemas this month, chosen by Pedro Almodóvar as one of 13 films that he especially admires. It is billed as unfinished, and it’s true that the film, based on a novella by Adelaida García Morales, was meant to have a second part, where Estrella, who has never seen the literal south ...”

“... I thought it might be a 1960s documentary – the people were that real. The film was Faces’), Pedro Almodóvar, Peter Bogdanovich and Olivier Assayas. ‘He thinks not like a director but like an actor,’ Pauline Kael wrote, and the remark was not intended as praise. But Kael was aware that what can be said against Cassavetes can also be said for ...”

“... and Catholic camp in particular, only works if it is in some way devout and serious, which is why Pedro Almodovar, after making hilarious, loving and utterly reverent films about junkie nuns and sex-crazed madonna figures, has started going off, and why Madonna with her crucifixes and her mother’s graveside is boring and embarrassing as hell. For the big ...”

“... organisation, which Sharp abbreviates in her book as an OPO? The great Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodóvar has directed the only major movie with organ donation as a central theme, and with a procurement officer at the heart of the plot: All about My Mother (1999). The Flower of My Secret (1995) opens with two rather inept procurers ...”