Fast-paced dialogue and a sharp comedic talent will harken back to the screwball era in the 30’s. the queer content of his penultimate film, La mala educacin (Bad Education. Bad Education released the same year as the terrorist bombings and massacres on commuter trains in Madrid in 2004, and there were countless ways in which both Spanish citizens as well as foreigners such as those of Ecuadorian and Kurdish communities within the city mourned and displayed support. He’s also known for working with actresses (Penelope Cruz amongst them) and creating great roles and voices for women. This queer-friendly tendency runs from Almodvar's earliest US interview. Bad Education/La mala educacin (2004) Source: IMDb The sociopolitical background of the film. I’d compare him to Fassbinder, Todd Haynes (all in the lineage of Douglas Sirk) but there’s an element of Hitchcock (mostly to his narratives) that isn’t there with Haynes or Fassbinder.
This will sound like high praise but it is, in some ways, queer cinema's closest equivalent to Hitchcock's Vertigo. The rubbish of Spanish popular culture, relegated to oblivion but recycled in images, sounds, and cultural associations from the past, has usually appeared as incidental comic details in Almodóvar’s. Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education ((La Mala Educacion) is the most remarkable film I have seen in a long time. Pablo Quintero (Eusebio Poncela) is a film and stage director. This comic thriller concerns a love triangle between three gay men and a one night stand that leads to terrible consequences. Color (the primary colors specifically) are important to Almodovar’s oeuvre. Unlike any of Pedro Almodóvar’s previous films,Bad Education(2004) is deeply rooted in the historical specificity of the Francoist period. Law Of Desire is one of the landmarks of queer cinema. Stylistic innovations/traits: Almodovar walks right up to the line of just completely over-the-top melodrama with a magnificent lively flair.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown - gobsmackingly beautiful shot– colors, blocking of the objects, the shapes of the furniture
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