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Reviewers praise Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar for abandoning his campy proclivities to make a film noir with social bite.
After winning Best Director at Cannes and making a splash at the New York Film Festival, Pedro Almodóvar's ode to women opens to gushing praise: "the most moving film of his career" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). A single mother whose teen-age son is suddenly killed makes a pilgrimage to track down the boy's father and in the process encounters women from all walks of life--transsexuals, pregnant nuns, divas, and more.
Homosexuality, drugs, all-night partying, and living life on the edge (the credo of films by Pedro Almodóvar, the boy wonder of la movida), were the shocking symbols of the new Spain.
Live Flesh , about a man who accidentally shoots his lover's husband, is deemed the director's "most mature film yet" (Jack Mathews, Newsday ). While the critics like Almodóvar's foray into political commentary--he indicts the Franco regime and Spain's ruling conservative party--they wax most enthusiastic over his signature touch: kinky sex scenes.
, among others--demonstrates what Janet Maslin calls "a newly sophisticated style that is far more passionate, wise, and deeply felt" than his previous work ( New York Times ). (This page has biographical information and a filmography for Almodóvar.)