15 Mar 2017 Director: Pedro Almodóvar Spain 2016 99 min Pedro Almodóvar is back on familiar ground with this sombre and ravishing study of grief, guilt and burden. Told over 30 years with two actresses (Emma Suárez and the younger Adriana Ugarte) playing one woman, this is the story of Julieta who is facing family… Continue reading Julieta
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Los Abrazos Rotos – Broken Embraces
3 Nov 10 Director: Pedro Almodóvar Spain 2009 128 min Renowned for his elegant, stylish films, Almodóvar’s love of cinema is condensed into the story of Harry Caine, a filmmaker whose personal life is as dramatic as his screen creations. Blinded in a car accident that also claimed the life of his lover, Lena, played… Continue reading Los Abrazos Rotos – Broken Embraces
High Heels
15 Nov 1995 Director: Pedro Almodovar USA 1991 114 min Awaiting the arrival of her actress mother in Madrid airport, a young woman reminisces about events from her childhood and her stepfather’s death – for which she was responsible. Now married, she is unaware that her husband is her mother’s former lover. It transpires that… Continue reading High Heels
Parallel Mothers
4 January 2023 Spain/France 2021 Director: Pedro Almodóvar Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar’s new feature film follows two women, Janis (Penélope Cruz) and Ana (Milena Smit), whose paths cross in a hospital where they are about to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, has no regrets and is exultant. The… Continue reading Parallel Mothers