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Pedro Almodóvar
Vivid Spanish dramas about desire, identity and family, including All About My Mother and Talk to Her.
All About My Mother · Talk to Her
- Born
- 25 September 1949
- Birthplace
- Calzada de Calatrava, Spain
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Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar is a Spanish filmmaker whose melodramas combine bold colour, dark comedy and complicated emotional lives.
Early life
La Mancha childhood
He grew up in rural Spain before attending religious school in Cáceres.
Self-taught filmmaking
After moving to Madrid, he worked for Telefónica and made short films outside formal film school.
Career
- 1980
Feature debut
Pepi, Luci, Bom emerged from Madrid’s post-Franco counterculture.
- 1986
Independent production
He founded El Deseo with his brother Agustín.
- 1990s–2020s
International recognition
His films won Oscars, major festival prizes and a continuing international audience.
Selected work
All About My Mother
Loss leads a mother into an unexpected community in Barcelona.
Talk to Her
Two men’s lives intersect through their care for unconscious women.
Pain and Glory
An ageing filmmaker revisits childhood, love and artistic blockage.
Beyond work
Writing
He has written fiction and autobiographical pieces as well as screenplays.
Producing others
El Deseo has supported work by other filmmakers, including Wild Tales.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Biographical dates and identifiers ↗Photo: Harald Krichel. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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