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

2. 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)

3. 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

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

5. A handful of Douglas Sirk

6. A dash of Telenovelas

7. Cult, Camp, Pop, Trash
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – international hit

8. Almodovar’s muses: Antonio Banderas, & Carmen Maura

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

10. Almodovar’s latest muse: Penelope Cruz,

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