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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown [Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios] **** (1988, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, María Barranco, Rossy de Palma, Julieta Serrano) – Classic Movie Review 3577

This outrageous, stylised, dazzling 1988 Spanish screwball comedy deservedly made the international reputation of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, turning him from enfant terrible into one of cinema’s biggest names. In a breakout crossover hit, it […]

Apr, 16 · in Reviews

Law of Desire **** (1987, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Miguel Molina, Eusebio Poncela) – Classic Movie Review 3570

Writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s amusingly provocative 1987 Spanish comedy drama about two male lovers and the sex-change sister (Carmen Maura) of one of them is a highly animated and deliciously extravagant movie. Eusebio Poncela stars as Pablo, who writes […]

Apr, 16 · in Reviews

Pepi, Luci, Bom [Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón] ** (1980, Carmen Maura, Eva Siva, Alaska, Félix Rotaeta) – Classic Movie Review 3571

Spanish enfant terrible cult director Pedro Almodóvar‘s 1980 first feature film, arriving belatedly in Britain in 1992 on the back of his later hits, looks at life in Madrid during the punk era. It centres on […]

Apr, 16

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! [Átame!] **** (1989, Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Loles León, Francisco Rabal, Julieta Serrano, Rossy de Palma, Francisca Caballero) – Classic Movie Review 3576

Writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s exuberant, hard-hitting 1989 Spanish art-movie romantic thriller stars Antonio Banderas as Ricky, a young stud who is freed from a psychiatric ward of a mental hospital and tries unorthodox methods to woo a […]

Apr, 16

What Have I Done to Deserve This? [¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!] **** (1984, Carmen Maura, Luis Hostalot, Gonzalo Suarez, Verónica Forqué, Ángel de Andrés López) – Classic Movie Review 3572

Carmen Maura again stars in writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s provocative and engaging 1984 dark comedy. It is a very welcome early pairing of Spanish cult director Almodóvar and the exceptionally appealing Maura, his star from his […]

Apr, 16

The Skin I Live In [La piel que habito] *** (2011, Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet) – Classic Movie Review 3575

Writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s intriguing but odd and alienating 2011 thriller is his 18th film, in a brilliant career that runs all the way back to Pepi, Luci, Bom in 1980. In his first collaboration with Almodóvar in […]

Apr, 16

Julieta ***½ (2016, Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Michelle Jenner, Rossy de Palma) – Movie Review

Writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s admirable 2016 film is a polished and provocative melodrama based on three short stories written by the Canadian author and 2013 Nobel laureate, Alice Munro. It is, surprisingly only his 20th movie in a […]

Apr, 16

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