{"product_id":"pedro-almodovar-paula-willoquet-maricondi-9781578065691","title":"Pedro Almodovar: Interviews","description":"In full command of both Hollywood stylistics and camp aesthetics, Spain's Pedro Almodar (b. 1951) has become a master of the audacious and the unorthodox, of the permissive and the polemical. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003ePedro Almodar: Interviews\u003c\/i\u003e documents the twenty-two-year cinematic career of the most internationally celebrated Spanish art-film director since Lu﨎 Buel. Many of these interviews, from French, Italian, and Spanish periodicals, appear for the first time in English. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Almodar's early cinematic ventures in Super 8 and 16mm in the 1970s marked and memorialized the rise of the Movida, Madrid's underground vanguard artistic movement. Almodar's critical success in his native Spain came with \u003ci\u003eWhat Have I Done to Deserve This?\u003c\/i\u003e Almodar made his mark in the United States with his kitschy, melodramatic comedy and Academy Award nominee \u003ci\u003eWomen on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown\u003c\/i\u003e, and his outlandish and irreverently funny \u003ci\u003eTie Me Up! Tie Me Down!\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For all its taboo-breaking plots, eccentric characterizations, and explosive palettes, Almodar's cinema of excess has matured into one of tender compassion. \u003ci\u003eAll About My Mother\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and of Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival, and his fourteenth feature to date, \u003ci\u003eTalk to Her\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, 2003, cement Almodar's commitment to characters on the margins and to social critique. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Covering more than two decades, the interviews collected here trace Almodar's journey from the small village of Calzada de Calatrava to Madrid, from his humble and Catholic provincial upbringing to his superstar status as Spain's leading postmodern auteur. Originally published in Spain, France, Italy, and the United States, these conversations disclose as much about Almodar's personal biography as they do about his thematic universe, his directorial personality, and his maturing style.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paula Willoquet-Maricondi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1578065690\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781578065691\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/13\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Paula Willoquet-Maricondi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994282295551,"sku":"9781578065691","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7abc7af2-99a5-4cde-956d-4c35336d1ab8.jpg?v=1683329217","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pedro-almodovar-paula-willoquet-maricondi-9781578065691","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}