8. Pedro Almodóvar, 57
Who: Spanish film-maker
Why: His films are passionate tributes to women - the female characters (celebrated by Almodóvar for their most unconventionally attractive features) are emotional and troubled, while transvestites, mothers and sympathetic daughters are all lovingly filtered through his female-identified lens. He says: 'Women have more secrets, more capacity to surprise. They are more shameless. They tell their girlfriends even what they do in bed with their husbands.' Penélope Cruz on Almodóvar: 'Pedro loves women, he is very curious about the way we think, the way we feel. He finds us complicated and he likes that complication.'
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It sounds a lovely description, but where has he got this view from, are they just personal or has he researched it?
ReplyDeleteHis passion for the female character could contribute to the fact that they are so prodominent in his films.
ReplyDeleteIt seems the representation of women in spanish cinema, in this sense, is that they are complex - but loved for it!
Charlotte,
ReplyDeleteI'm getting rather worried about the lack of evidence of progress here...you should be recording primary research by now.