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Pedro Almodóvar is one of the most renowned directors to come out of Spain since the fall of Franco. ... ‘Hable con Ella’ was not nominated for ‘Best Foreign Film’ which not only surprised Almodóvar himself but also the Film world. ...
Pedro Almodóvar has come along way since the days he used to make short films with his Super 8 camera. ...
Pedro Almodóvar was born on the 25th of September in 1951 in a small little town called Calzada de Calatrava in La Mancha, a conservative and rural area of Spain. Almodóvar was brought up during the final years of the Franco regime. ...
Pedro Almodóvar moved to Madrid in 1968 at the age of 17 with the hope of broadening his horizons and with the aim to study cinematic art and to make movies. He had hoped to attend the Official School of Cinematic Arts in order to learn everything about filmmaking, but was unable to do so as Almodóvar had come from poverty and did not have much money and also the fascist Franco government had it closed down. This did not stop Almodóvar from pursuing his dream he began to look for work in order to survive in Madrid and worked in various jobs until he found a decent job with the National Telephone Company of Madrid. ...
When Almodóvar started to earn enough money he bought his first Super 8 mm camera and began to make short films, which he both wrote and directed, most of which were sex comedies. With the end of the dictatorship Almodóvar found that he could use this newfound freedom to write, produce and direct anything that he wanted to that would keep audiences both entertained and engaged. Almodóvar became an auteur and even performed and acted in his films and sometimes decorated the sets on his films.
It was not until 1980 that Almodóvar made his very first feature film that he called ‘Pepi, Luci,Bom y otras chicas del montón.’Almodóvar would not have been to have made this movie during Franco’s dictatorship as it contains scenes of sex, rape and sadism.
Approximate Word count = 1708
Approximate Pages = 6.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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