Pedro Almodovar is a famous Spanish filmmaker. His full name is Pedro Almodovar Caballero. Worldwide fame came to him in the 1980s. He makes films in the genre of comedy melodrama.
Biography
Pedro Almodovar was born on September 25, 1949. The place of his birth is Calzada de Calatrava. As a child, he moved with his family to Extremadura. So he was educated at the Salesian and Franciscan schools. In his youth, Pedro went to Madrid alone. There he changed jobs until he joined Telefonika. Pedro joined the Los Goliardos theater troupe. Almodovar got small roles in professional theater. Later he was in a music group that played in the style of parody punk-glam rock.
Filmography
The director has more than 130 films. He started with short films. Among his first works are "Two Whores or a Love Story That Ends with a Wedding", "Political Film" and "Whiteness". Then he directed several other short melodramas and comedies, including The Fall of Sodom, Dream or Star, Trailer, or Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Honoring, Show Mercy and Death on the Freeway.
In 1980, he directed and wrote the comedy Pepi, Lucy, Bohm and the rest of the girls. The main roles in the film were played by Carmen Maura, Felix Rotaeta, Alaska, Eva Siwa, Concha Gregory and Kitty Manver. In the story, the main character is abused by a police officer. To take revenge on him, the girl decides to make her husband leave the offender. The film was presented at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and Taipei International Film Festival.
The next particularly successful work of Almodovar was the comedy "Why do I need this?" For the main roles, he invited such actors as Carmen Maura, Luis Ostalot, Re Hiruma, Angel de Andres Lopez, Gonzalo Suarez and Veronica Forque. According to the plot, troubles fall on the main character from all sides.
In 1986, Almodovar directed the melodrama "Matador". The main roles were played by Assumpta Serna and Antonio Banderas. According to the plot, the main character, a matador, is wounded and can no longer kill bulls. Other successful films by the Spanish director of the 1980s include The Law of Desire, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, and Tie Me Up.
In the 1990s, Pedro directed several more masterpieces, such as High Heels, The Flower of My Secret, Living Flesh and All About My Mother. In the next decade, the filmography of the director and screenwriter was replenished with such rating melodramas with elements of comedy as Bad Upbringing, Talk to Her, The Return and Open Embrace with Penelope Cruz.
Almodovar's next successful film was the melodrama The Skin I Live In, which was nominated for many film awards. Among the last works of Almodovar - the drama about the director "Pain and Glory", in which he played the main role. Pedro received the Cannes Film Festival prize for his performance. The main roles in the film were played by Penelope Cruz, Asier Eceandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia and Nora Navas.
