Word: almodovar
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Almodovar is probably the last person I'd think of as a hero. The mediocre quality of the films he makes on taxpayers' money is exceeded only by his third-class café Bolshevik political comments. He is definitely not my idea of a hero. Peter Schmidt Madrid...
...good and ill, this multipart crime epic is fully up to matching its cocksure ambition with its love of the medium and its mad pash for melodrama. The movie still has the impact of an Adrenalin shot to the heart. Talk To Her 2002; Pedro Almodovar At its simplest level, this transgressively witty film is about how a hospital orderly's sexual obsession achieves the unlikely awakening of a comatose woman. But there's actually nothing simple about this lovely, lightly dancing film's reflections on all the big topics: life, death, dreams - and ballet...
TALK TO HER 2002; PEDRO ALMODOVAR...
...themes of self-actualization, fantasy and queer identities in a world constrained by morality aren’t new to Almodovar, but rarely has he so effectively correlated these themes with the tenets of his unique cinema. Bad Education utilizes the typically Almodovarian production schemes, quirky dialogue, ambiguous moral codes and post-feminist politics to create a cinematic space that is more usefully reflexive than his past work. As the film moves toward and comments upon the post-modern “reality” embodied in Ignacio’s development, Almodovar productively pushes the envelope as he weaves...
Like Almodovar’s last film, Talk to Her, Bad Education is morally complicated and visually explicit. It is also cinematically literate, beautiful and strikingly well-conceived. As one of the few important filmmakers today who refuses to corrupt or simplify his own work, Almodovar has dropped another much-needed gem into the limited pool of challenging new cinema...