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Spain's most celebrated director is in trouble for a bit of unscripted dialogue. In Madrid last week, the nation's naughty auteur PEDRO ALMODOVAR said Spain's outgoing Popular Party tried to hatch a coup the day before its defeat in the March 14 election. The party denied the charge and threatened to sue the director for slander. Almodovar says he "just echoed a sea of rumors." Hey, can Bill Clinton sue anyone...
...same time, the nominees that the voters selected to replace these spurned December brides were utterly unpredictable. In a normal year, there are only one or two major surprises in a slate of Oscar nominees—think Robert Forster for Jackie Brown, Pedro Almodovar for Talk to Her, or Ethan Hawke for Training...
WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. Pedro Almodovar directs this comedy filled with all your favorite soap-opera twists. Pepa, who realizes that her lover Ivan is leaving her, goes on a gun rampage and drugs Ivan’s son’s fiancee with Valium-laced gazpacho. The plot complicates when her friend Candela falls in love with a Shiite terrorist and hides out at Pepa’s home. Then she meets Ivan’s son, Carlos (Antonio Banderas). The 1988 Spanish comedy, filmed in Madrid, is irresistible. Women on the Verge...
...director is Spain's most admired artist. "He can't go anywhere anymore in Spain--he's mobbed, he's like the Beatles," says Geraldine Chaplin, who plays a supporting role in the film. Chaplin fears not for his life but for his sensibility, lonely in the distracting crowd. Almodovar disagrees. "I live as closely as possible to the way I've always lived," he says, but he acknowledges that this is not easy. The character in Talk to Her he identifies with is not the bustling Benigno but Lydia, the bullfighter: "The relationship between the bull and the matador...
...AWARDED. PEDRO ALMODOVAR, 51, Oscar-winning Spanish director; a clutch of top prizes at the 2002 European Film Awards, including best European director and screenwriter, for his provocative drama Talk to Her; in Rome. Revolving around two women rendered comatose and the men who love them, the movie is considered Almodovar's finest work, though it failed to make Spain's foreign language entry for the last Academy Awards...