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OT: "Volver", Pedro Almodovar's new movie: A MUST SEE
opinionista:
--- Quote from: rtprod on May 19, 2006, 11:46:10 am ---I can't wait to see this film but it has not screened stateside yet for US press. I'm enamored of all his films, way back to the great ones with Carmen Maura. Has anyone seen Law of Desire with Maura and Antonio Banderas? That is vintage, sexy, passionate Almodovar. Ditto Matador and Labyrinth of Passion. Of course there are many more. High Heels, for all its exagerrated melodrama, was affecting as well.
Bad Education ranks with his all time best in my opinion, a snaky noir dolloped with hot, sexy imagery and some narrative tricks that are really inventive. Gael just rocks that film, as does Fele Martinez (also great in Lovers of the Arctic Circle).
All About My Mother may be his most emotionally accomplished film for me (something about Talk to Her left me a bit cold, oddly). Underrated: The Flower of My Secret, starring one of his regulars, the great Spanish star Marisa Parades (now there is a world-class actress).
God love Almodovar.
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Carmen Maura also stars in Volver. Her performance is outstanding as usual. There's another actress not so well know in the states who also does great: Lola Dueñas. She is also in The Sea Inside. I think the movie will open sometime in June in the states but I don't know for sure.
JCinNYC2006:
I've been reading more and more about this movie, I'm excited to see it. It's been so long since Carmen Maura was in one of Almodovar's movies. I loved her in Law of Desire and What Have I Done To Deserve This? But Women On The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown was to me their best collaboration. Even if she's not the star in this one, it's cool to know they're working together again.
Juan
starboardlight:
--- Quote from: rtprod on May 19, 2006, 11:46:10 am ---Has anyone seen Law of Desire with Maura and Antonio Banderas? That is vintage, sexy, passionate Almodovar.
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yep, my first ever male/male sex scene in film. and the opening with the masturbating guy was very titillating.
but yeah, All About My Mother is the my favorite of Almodovar. I look forward to everything he does.
rtprod:
I liked Victoria Abril so much Almodovar's High Heels and Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down (the absurd American title for Atame). However, I despised that latter movie and thought it to be one of his weakest and a peek-a-boo waste of Abril and Banderas, though not quite as awful as Kika, which was the nadir of Almodovar's career.
However, LIVE FLESH is another very good one starring Cruz, Francesca Neri, Javier Bardem and Liberto Rabal.
rt
starboardlight:
--- Quote from: rtprod on May 19, 2006, 01:01:48 pm ---I liked Victoria Abril so much Almodovar's High Heels and Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down (the absurd American title for Atame). However, I despised that latter movie and thought it to be one of his weakest and a peek-a-boo waste of Abril and Banderas, though not quite as awful as Kika, which was the nadir of Almodovar's career.
However, LIVE FLESH is another very good one starring Cruz, Bardem and Liberto Rabal.
rt
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Cruz in LIVE FLESH? I had to think for a second. Yeah, she was barely in it though. Again another wonderful Almovar. The chemistry between the two men was very interesting.
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