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Film Description
Four films from Spanish director Pedro Almodovar: 'Volver' (2006), 'All About My Mother' (1999), 'Bad Education' (2004), and 'Talk To Her' (2002).
One of the most acclaimed films of 2006, 'Volver' has been seen in many quarters as Almodovar's masterpiece. Penelope Cruz has never been better (or more beautiful) than as Raimunda, a hard-working woman whose life is a mess. Her sister, meanwhile, is shocked when their mother (Carmen Maura) returns to lend a helping hand. A warm, delightful film with strong performances (the female protagonists shared the Best Actress award at Cannes).
In 'All About My Mother' (1999), single mother Manuela (Cecilia Roth) takes her seventeen-year-old son, Esteban (Eloy Azorin), to see a stage performance of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' as a birthday treat. Tragically, Esteban is killed when he chases after a taxi carrying his favourite actress, Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes). Consumed with guilt, Manuela decides to go in search of Esteban's father, whose identity she never revealed to her son. She finds out that he has had a sex change and is now called Lola the Pioneer, and along the way meets various characters, including transvestite La Agrado (Antonia San Juan) and AIDS-infected nun Sister Rosa (Penelope Cruz), who help her with a painful journey of self-discovery.
'Bad Education' (2004) is a semi-autobiographical melodrama follows the intertwining stories of two boys, Enrique (Fele Martinez) and Ignacio (Gael Garcia Bernal), who fall in love at an abusive Catholic school and are parted by a jealous paedophile priest. 16 years later, Enrique, now a successful filmmaker, is casting about for an idea for a new film when a young cross-dressing actor, claiming to be Ignacio but known as 'Angel', approaches him with a short story based on their schooldays together. Enrique decides to use the story, and casts Angel in the film's lead role, despite his discovery that Angel is not in fact Ignacio, who died three years earlier shortly after completing the story, but his younger brother. Enrique's film also includes scenes in which the grown-up Ignacio tracks down the Catholic priest who abused them as boys, and these scenes soon become mirrored by real-life events. Almodovar moves away from his trademark quirky comedy with this dark and brooding drama, using a complex 'film-within-a-film' structure to create a noir-like sense of mystery and blurred identity, and to explore the relationship between fantasy and reality.
'Talk To Her' (2002) is an absorbing tale of two men and their relationships to two women in comas. There are no simple feelings or emotions here. It's a tale of love, obsession and loss that has garnered a host of awards including Best Director, Best Film and Best Screenwriter at the European Film Awards 2002 and Best Foreign Language Film at The Golden Globes.
