Spotlight on Almodóvar
Ongoing Series
There are few filmmakers today who can match the prolific (and out) filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, whose melodramatic plots, colorful production design, attention to the lives of women and gay men, and elaborately self-referential filmography have made him one of few directors worthy of his own adjective, Almodovarean.
Brain Dead Studios presents a complete retrospective of the master's work, from his days as an underground 16mm filmmaker in post-Franco Madrid to international acclaim. All of Almodóvar's films demonstrate a Queer sensibility; Law of Desire (1987), All About My Mother (1999), Bad Education (2004) and Pain and Glory all center Queer stories or characters.
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Pepi, Luci, Bom
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After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of outrageous punk friends.
What Have I Done to Deserve This?
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A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.
Matador
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A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn’t commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
Law of Desire
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Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire.
Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown
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This madcap drama, with a whirling story of multiple women, their lovers, and some gazpacho laced with sleeping pills, is one of the greats from out Spanish director Pedro Almod�var. It's not one of his Queer films, but this is the film that put him on the map internationally.
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
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Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.
All About My Mother
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This compassionate, sprawling melodrama follows Manuela after the death of her 17 year-old son Esteban. She sets out in search of Esteban's father, now a trans woman named Lola, who is sick with AIDS. It's the kind of film only Almod�var can make, lurid and lovely and memorable.
Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
Talk to Her
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Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Bad Education
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Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.
Volver
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While a woman attempts to cover up her daughter’s murder and reinvent her life, her sister is visited by their mother, who was thought to have died.
The Skin I Live In
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A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Pain & Glory
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Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
