Los Amantes Pasajeros

Saw this in Philly at The Ritz East with Ashlee last night and we were howling. It should come as no surprise that Pedro has made yet another incredible film. I mean, this man can do no wrong. What a treat it was to see so many familiar Almodóvar faces and honestly, it was just the laugh I needed after a week of nothing but disappointments. Oh! And it was Ash's first foreign film! A perfect evening with one of my all time favourite people.

(photo kidnapped from cinemarama)

The Skin I Live In

Yesterday Nicole and I finally went to Theatre N to see La piel que habito and it was phenomenal - just as I expected. It was beautiful and lush, viciously disturbing, and bizarrely tender. More than once, Nicole and I turned to eachother with our mouths hanging open in shock, a mirror for the other; just when we thought we'd seen it all, we discovered that the unexpected was just around the corner.
Antonio Banderas has never looked more dashing and handsome and Pedro Almodóvar has created another gorgeous work of art.

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La Piel que Habito

Pedro Almodóvar's upcoming film, The Skin I Live In, reunites the director with Antonio Banderas. The premise, like all Almodóvar films, is fascinating and will prove to be yet another incredible film among what seems to be a plethora of dull and thoughtless movies. I guess I'll have to be patient and wait until autumn...

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Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios

The most swoon-worthy lines from Pedro Almodóvar's gorgeous film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

Life means nothing without you

Will you marry me?

A million nights wouldn't be enough

I can't live without you

I love you, desire you, need you

That night in the jungle was heaven

Let's get married again

You're the geisha of my life

With you by my side, I don't need success

I'm willing to accept you as you are

I'm all yours

I accept you as you are.

Volver

I am right now revisiting a film I've not seen since the theatre. Prior to seeing Volver I actually had never been terribly impressed with Penélope Cruz. However, after the scene when she was lying in bed with the camera looking over her, I fell completely in love. Director Pedro Almodóvar is also clearly enamored of her and it is apparent by how luminous she appears in every frame of this film.

The first third of the movie sucks you in with its Hitchcockian/film noir plot but then moves into a ghost story of sorts, then finally it settles on family, sisterhood, mothers and daughters and the fierce love that bonds these glorious women together. It's most definitely one of my favourite Almodóvar films and absolutely one of his finest achievements.