Cycle
From 10.02. To 20.02.2010.
Program of Pedro Almodóvar’s films
DIRECTORS
Films in cycle
To Return
(Volver, Spain, 2006)
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
PHOTOGRAPHY: José Luis Alcaine
Synopsis:
Two sisters, Raimunda and Sole, along with Raimunda’s daughter Paula, travel to the country to visit their aunt Paula. She is the sister of their mother Irene, who died in a fire years ago. Paula talks about Irene as if she was alive and the sisters become worried that their aunt is senile. Aside from all of that, Raimunda has other problems to deal with, living in poverty with an alcoholic husband. After he attacks her, young Paula kills her father and Raimunda gets rid of the body. That same n...
color, 121'
PROJECTION:
Saturday 20.02.2010 AT 21:15
Wednesday 10.02.2010 AT 19:00
Bad Education
(La mala educación, Spain, 2004)
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
PHOTOGRAPHY: José Luis Alcaine
Synopsis:
In the early 1960s, Enrique and Ignacio grow up in a Catholic school headed by father Manolo. The two boys discover films, love, friendship and fear. After Enrique is expelled from school, he meets Ignacio sixteen years later. Now Enrique is a famous director and Ignacio an actor under the assumed name Angel. He has a screenplay which he hopes Enrique will direct. A scene in the movie is dedicated to Sarita Montiel.
color, 106'
PROJECTION:
Thursday 11.02.2010 AT 19:00
Wednesday 10.02.2010 AT 21:00
Talk to Her
(Hable con ella, Spain, 2002)
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
PHOTOGRAPHY: Javier Aguirresarobe
Synopsis:
While visiting the hospital where his girlfriend lies in a coma, Marco (Darío Grandinetti) meets Benigno (Javier Cámara), a nurse who cares for another young woman in a coma with whom he is secretly in love. Marco and Benigno soon become friends. In 2003, this film won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
color, 112'
PROJECTION:
Friday 12.02.2010 AT 19:00
Thursday 11.02.2010 AT 21:00
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
(Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios, Spain, 1988)
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
PHOTOGRAPHY: José Luis Alcaine
Synopsis:
Pepa’s lover has left her and she wants to kill herself. Her plan is to eat gazpacho in which she has put enough sleeping pills to ensure a painless and certain death. Soon, a friend shows up at her door because the police are after her and her boyfriend. Pepa wants to help her friend and asks advice of an attorney who is, purely by chance, the new lover of Pepa’s ex boyfriend.
color, comedy, 88'
PROJECTION:
Saturday 13.02.2010 AT 19:00
Friday 12.02.2010 AT 21:00
The Live Flesh
(Carne trémula, Spain, 1997)
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
PHOTOGRAPHY: Affonso Beato
Synopsis:
One night in 1990 Madrid, three men break into the Italian ambassador’s house and steal weapons while the ambassador’s daughter, Elena, desperately waits on her drug dealer. The three men are Victor, who is an immature and problematic adolescent, and a pair of police officers, David and Sancho. During a violent fight, a gun goes off and shoots David in the spine. The police arrest Victor and he is sentenced to seven years in prison. David, who is a paraplegic now, becomes a famous wheelchair bas...
color, 103'
PROJECTION:
Monday 15.02.2010 AT 19:00
Saturday 13.02.2010 AT 21:00
Kika
(Spain, 1993)
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
PHOTOGRAPHY: Alfredo Mayo
Synopsis:
Kika is a make-up artist who falls in love with her dead client, Ramon. By some miracle, her love brings him back to life. Pablo is an ex-porn star who has escaped from prison and hides in Kika’s apartment. His sister Juana is Kika’s maid. Then there is Ramon’s father Nicolas, host of a tabloid TV show. There are many schemes and secret relationships between all of them.
color, 114'
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 16.02.2010 AT 19:00
Monday 15.02.2010 AT 21:00
Dark Habits
(Entre tinieblas, Spain, 1983)
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ángel Luis Fernández
Synopsis:
Yolanda, a singer in a night club, seeks refuge in a convent after her boyfriend dies from an overdose. Hiding from the police, she spends time hanging out with unusual nuns: one of them secretly writes romance novels, another has a pet tiger, a third one teaches a priest that she is in love with how to sew and the headmistress of the convent has feelings for Yolanda.
color, 114'
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 17.02.2010 AT 19:00
Tuesday 16.02.2010 AT 21:00
The Flower of My Secret
(La flor de mi secreto, Spain, France, 1995)
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
PHOTOGRAPHY: Affonso Beato, Alfredo Mayo
Synopsis:
Leo Macías is a writer of cheap romance novels, unhappy with her real love life. Her husband works for the military and spends more time in peace-keeping missions around the world than in his own home, even though his wife is eager to see him. Things get even worse when Leo’s editor, who also has feelings for her, asks her to write a critique of the author Amanda Gris. However, that is Leo’s pseudonym.
color, 103'
PROJECTION:
Thursday 18.02.2010 AT 19:00
Wednesday 17.02.2010 AT 21:00
What Have I Done To Deserve This?
(Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?, Spain, 1984)
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ángel Luis Fernández
Synopsis:
This is a story about an atypical family: the mother is a janitor addicted to pills, the father is a forger in love with a German singer, one of the sons is a drug dealer, while the other is sold to a dentist by his own mother! After the mother accidentally kills her husband and a nightmare starts to unfold. This is a black comedy of absurdity.
color, 101'
PROJECTION:
Friday 19.02.2010 AT 19:00
Thursday 18.02.2010 AT 21:00
Broken Embraces
(Los abrazos rotos, Spain, 2009)
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
PHOTOGRAPHY: Rodrigo Prieto
Synopsis:
Harry Caine is a blind writer who spends most of his time in his apartment, accompanied by his agent Judith and her son Diego. Slowly we discover a past in which he used to be called Mateo Blanco who worked as a film director. We flash back to a time when he was preparing a new film starring Lena. Her obsessive husband, Ernesto Martel, disapproves of his wife’s career, fearing that he may lose her.