The Stranger, August 31st, 2006
Ecce Homo
Pedro Almodóvar's Mirthful Heart of Darkness by Brendan Kiley
Viva Pedro
Harvard Exit
Sept 1: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Sept 8: All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Flower of My Secret
Sept 15: Live Flesh, Law of Desire, Bad Education
Sept 22: Matador
FOR A FILMMAKER, Pedro Almodóvar is oddly hung up on theater. Exhibit A: His leading women are dancers, actresses, and drag queens (as well as prostitutes, clergy, and transsexuals) all of whose livelihoods, and, sometimes, lives, depend on impenetrable public performances. Exhibit B: All About My Mother (which fe...
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