Pedro Almodóvar’s last film, I’m So Excited! was a preposterously camp farce set on a flight and a complete tonal disaster. Julieta is an entirely different, you might almost say opposite, proposition ...

The women in Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s films have, on more than one occasion, been on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Melodrama is Almodóvar’s preferred prism through which to project his ...

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AS Pedro Almodóvar’s drama opens the screen is awash with his beloved red, a colour so often associated in his films with passion and gaiety. Here, indeed, is another Almodovar picture which is all ...

A year ago, when the Spanish actress Adriana Ugarte first auditioned for a role in Pedro Almodóvar’s film, Julieta, (out today) she had no idea he was the director. “The casting director sent me a few ...