Hable Con Ella (Talk to Her) The Fictive World of Pedro Almodovar

Filmography Dos putas, o, Historia de amor que termina en boda (1974) (Two Whores, or, A Love Story that Ends in Marriage); La caída de Sodoma (1975) (The Fall of Sodom); full-length film: Folle, folle, fólleme, Tim (1978) (Fuck Me, Fuck Me, Fuck Me, Tim), Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón. Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap (1980)

Almodóvar made his first feature film, Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap - 1980 low budget with volunteers shooting on weekends. A story of revenge, lesbian punk rock and masochistic housewives. Female solidarity

Following in a long tradition of women’s pictures Douglas Sirk, Rainer Werner Fassbinder Telenovella, Hollywood melodrama

A handful of Douglas Sirk http://video.google.nl/videosearch?hl=nl&um=1&q=douglas%20sirk&ndsp=18&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iv#

A dash of Telenovelas http://video.google.nl/videosearch?hl=nl&um=1&q=douglas%20sirk&ndsp=18&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iv#q=cachetadas+telenovelas&hl=nl&emb=0

Cult, Camp, Pop, Trash http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/55146/Women-on-the-Verge-of-a-Nervous-Breakdown/trailers Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – international hit

Almodovar’s muses: Antonio Banderas, & Carmen Maura

Oscar’s, Cannes BAFTAs for All About My Mother, Women on the Verge, Volver

Almodovar’s latest muse: Penelope Cruz,

Talk to Her: maybe the best and most atypical Almodovar film