With The Skin I Live In out today in the UK, here’s a handy guide to the films of director Pedro Almodóvar, and what to say if you’ve never seen one of his films…
We’ve all been there. You’re out with some friends eating tapas and drinking sangria, and someone mentions The Skin I Live In, the excellent new film from Pedro Almodóvar. But what if you don’t know the director’s work? Never fear. Here are ten things to say if you’ve never seen an Almodóvar film.
1. On women: “It's all about his mother...”
If you’re watching an Almodóvar film, you can bet that women are involved. Most evident, perhaps, in 2006’s Volver and 1999’s All About My Mother (both five star films), is that he’s a director keen to emphasise female identity, repeatedly highlighting their solidarity and resilience in the...
We’ve all been there. You’re out with some friends eating tapas and drinking sangria, and someone mentions The Skin I Live In, the excellent new film from Pedro Almodóvar. But what if you don’t know the director’s work? Never fear. Here are ten things to say if you’ve never seen an Almodóvar film.
1. On women: “It's all about his mother...”
If you’re watching an Almodóvar film, you can bet that women are involved. Most evident, perhaps, in 2006’s Volver and 1999’s All About My Mother (both five star films), is that he’s a director keen to emphasise female identity, repeatedly highlighting their solidarity and resilience in the...
- 8/25/2011
- Den of Geek
The Dark Hour Directed by Elio Quiroga Any attempt to unearth hidden meaning behind Spain's Sci-Fi thriller The Dark Hour would simply give it too much credit. While watching this film, it becomes glaringly obvious that writer-director Elio Quiroga heavily borrows visuals and themes from the Alien franchise, but fails miserably to evoke the same tension. After an apocalyptic war forces a group of eight people to live in an underground installation, they must not only contend with each other, but a diseased community known as the Strangers and their ominous cousins, called the Invisibles. Like the Alien movies, Quiroga's protagonists barricade themselves in claustrophobic hangers, run down dark narrow hallways with lights affixed to their weapons, use the creatures to off their human adversaries and involve themselves in a cat and mouse chase at the end. The similarities are astounding. Even the cold tones of Ángel Luis Fernández's...
- 8/17/2009
- by Nigel Hamid
- SoundOnSight
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