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Pedro Almodovar
December 19, 2024
MagazineAdam Nayman
Pedro Almodóvar’s Self-Indulgent Portrait of a Woman’s Last Days
“The Room Next Door” is not quite willing to confront its subject in all its difficulty.
December 23, 2021
MagazineLidija Haas
Parallel Mothers Confronts the Legacies of Fascism
Pedro Almodovar’s new movie with Penelope Cruz is his most explicitly political.
December 12, 2016
Daniel Wenger
Julieta and Almodóvar’s Lonely, Haunted Women
The director’s latest film, based on three short stories by Alice Munro, confirms his view that women’s lives exist chiefly for melodrama.
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