Masters of Cinema: Pedro Almodóvar
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Pedro Almodovar (Spain, b. 1949) single-handedly represents the revival of
Spanish cinema as part of the cultural flowering of the Movida Madrilena
in the 1980s. New York was first to hail the unbridled imagination of this
provocative director, whose films are filled with transsexuals, neurotics
("Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown", 1988) and even drug-addicted
nuns ("The Law of Desire", 1987). In his maturity, Almodovar has continued
to draw inspiration from his underprivileged childhood in a remote corner
of La Mancha, making melodramas bursting with heightened passions
expressed by unforgettable actors such as enelope Cruz ("All About My
Mother", 1999; and "Broken Embraces", 2009) and Gael Garcia Bernal ("Bad
Education", 2004).