Final Almodovar Booklet

Julieta Serrano Dark Habits, 05 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, 07 Carmen Maura Pepi, Luci, Bom and other Girls on the Heap, 11 What Have I Done to Deserve This? 13 Antonio Banderas Matador, 17 Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! 19 Cecilia Roth Labyrinth of Passions, 23 All About My Mother, 25 Penelope Cruz Volver, 29 Broken Embraces, 31

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Almod贸var & Julieta Serrano Born Jan 21, 1933 Location Barcelona, Spain First Collaboration Pepi, Luci, Bom and other Girls on the Heap

Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del mont贸n 1980 Last Collaboration Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! 隆Atame!

1990 02

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A S A N E E S E B Y A M M L I ‘THE F .

Y D E M O C N O I T A U T I S E M COSTU E H T S I T A H T D N I H E B T U B .

E V O L F O Y TRAGED .

S E R N E G T C E P S E R T ’ N O ID .

M E H T E R O EVEN IF I AD EM.’ H T O T P E E K I CANT VAR ON GENRE PEDRO ALMODO

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Dark Habits

Entre tinieblas

1983

Screen Play Cinematography Sound Production Design Editing Songs Production Running Time

Pedro Almódovar Ángel Luis Fernández Martin Müller & Armin Fausten Pin Morales & Román Arango José Salcedo Sol Pilas TesauroSA 1h 55m

Cast & Characters

Cristina S. Pascual as Yolanda Julieta Serrano as The Mother Superior Marisa Paredes as Sister Manure Carmen Maura as Sister Damned Chus Lampreave as Sister Sewer Rat Cecilia Roth as Merche

After accidentally causing her lover’s death by overdose, the cabaret singer Yolanda seeks refuge in a convent. The Mother Superior of the Humiliated Sisters of Redemption has in fact visited her in her dressing-room a short time previously. The community is made up of half a dozen nuns, who include a drug addict, a writer - under a pseudonym - of pornographic novels, and one who keeps a tiger in a cage. The owner of the convent, a noblewoman, threatens to sell it after the recent death of her wealthy husband. Yolanda rejects the love of the Mother Superior, who still continues to supply her with heroin, and the community is unable to survive these crises. In the end the nuns each go their own way.

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E G R E V E H T N O N E M O ‘W , D E D N U O R SI MY MOST .

T P I R C S D E FINISH , H G U O N E Y ODDL K O O T T A H T E N O E H T S A IT W ’ .

E T I R W O T E M I T T S A E L THE G

N SCRIPTWRITIN

VAR O PEDRO ALMODO

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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios

1988

Screen Play Cinematography Sound Production Design Editing Music Songs Production Manager Production Running Time

Pedro Almódovar José Luis Alcaine Gille Ortion Felix Murcia José Salcedo Bernardo Bonezzi Lol Beltrán & La Lupe Esther García Agustín Almodóvar for El Deso 1h 35m

Cast & Characters

Carmen Maura as Pepa Julieta Serrano as Lucía Antonio Banderas as Carlos Fernando Guillén as Ivan María Barranco as Candela Rossy de Palma as Marisa Kiti Manver as Paulina Chus Lampreave as The Concierge

Pepa has been abandoned by Ivan and wants to leave the flat in which they were lovers. But it becomes the place where several women meet: Candela, who is fleeing the police because she loved a terrorist, Lucía, the mother of one of Ivan’s children, and Marisa, who has come to look at the flat with her partner, Carlos. All these women reach crisis point at the same moment, in the same place.

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Almod贸var & Carmen Maura Born Sept 15, 1945 Location Madrid, Spain First Collaboration Fuck Me, Fuck Me, Fuck Me, Tim!

Folle, folle, f贸lleme, Tim! 1978 Last Collaboration Volver 2006 08

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R A T S E H T S A W N E M R ‘CA , O I R O T I R E M E H T S A W I AND .

Y O B W E N THE S D N E E T I S O P P O T A E R E WE W .

R E D D A L E OF TH D E T A N I C S A F S A W E H S BUT

BY ME.’ URA ITH CARMEN MA

SHIP W N HIS RELATION O R A V O D O LM A PEDRO

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Pepi, Luci, Bom and other Girls on the Heap Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón

Screen Play Cinematography Sound Editing Music Production

Running Time

Pedro Almódovar Paco Feminia Miguel Ángel Polo José Salcedo Alaska y Los Pegamoides Félix Rotaeta Pepón Coromina for Figaro Films 1h 20m

Cast & Characters

Carmen Maura as Pepi Eva Siva as Luci Olvido ‘Alaska’ Gara as Bom Félix Rotaeta as The Policeman Kiti Manver as The Singer Fanny McNamara as Fabio Cecilia Roth as The Newscaster

1980

Pepi is raped by a policeman, who threatens to report her for growing cannabis on her windowsill. In revenge, she throws Luci, the policeman’s wife, into the arms of Bom, a sadistic punk rock singer. Luci and Bom have a passionate love affair. Pepi becomes a designer in an advertising agency that spends most of its budget on promoting deoderizing underclothes. Luci is caught by her husband, who beats her up, which she loves. Pepi and Bom part ways with Luci, and decided to move in together.

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Y L E N I U N E G S I E N I O R E H ‘THE D E N O D N A SI OLATED, AB .

E N O Y R E V E BY E R A S N O I N A P M O C Y L N HER O .

S E C N A I L P P A D L O H E S HER HOU R E H O T S E S S E N T I W E THE SOL ’ .

E D U T I L O S PAIN AND ’ VAR ON ‘GLORIA PEDRO ALMODO

A) (CARMEN MAUR

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What Have I Done To Deserve This?

Qué he hecho yo para merecer ésto? 1984

Screen Play Cinematography Sound Production Design Costumes Editing Music Production Running Time

Pedro Almódovar Ángel Luis Fernández Bernardo Menz Pin Morales & Román Arango Cecilia Roth José Salcedo Bernardo Bonezzi TesauroSA 1h 42m

Cast & Characters

Carmen Maura as Gloria Ángel de Andrés López as Antonio Chus Lampreave as The Grandmother Verónica Forqué as Cristal Kiti Manver as Juani

Gloria lives in a run-down high-rise estate on the outskirts of Madrid with her husband Antonio, a taxi driver who carries a torch for a German singer whose driver and lover he once was. They have two children, one a rent boy, the other a drug addict. The grandmother who lives with them dreams of returning to her village. Gloria earns her living by doing long hours of cleaning and taking amphetamines to keep going.

When the woman at the pharmacy refuses to renew her prescription, and her husband gets involved in an historical fraud for the sake of the German singer, who has reappeared from the past, Gloria is completely out of ther depth. Her neighbours, Cristal the prostitute and Juani the model housewife, don’t give her much help.

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Almod贸var & Antonio Banderas Born Aug 10, 1960 Location M谩laga, Spain First Collaboration Labyrinth of Passions

Laberinto de pasiones 1982 Last Collaboration The Skin I Live In

La piel que habito 2011 14

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T C A R T S B A T S O M Y M S I ‘THIS S L A E D T I H G U O H T N E FILM, EV E T E R C N O C T S O M E H T H WIT ; S R E T T A M ’ .

H T A E D D N SEX A R’

EHIND ‘MATADO

ES B VAR ON THE THEM O D O LM A O R ED P

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Matador

1986

Screen Play Pedro Almódovar & Jesús Ferrero Cinematography Ángel Luis Fernández Sound Bernardo Ortion Production Design Román Arango José Morales

Josep Rosell Editing José Salcedo Music Bernardo Bonezzi Production Manager Esther García Production Andrés Vicente Gómez for

Compania Iberoamericana de TV Running Time 1h 36m Cast & Characters

Assumpta Serna as María Cardenal Antonio Banderas as Ángel Nacho Martínez as Diego Eva Cobo as Eva Julieta Serrano as Berta Chus Lampreave as Pilar Carmen Maura as Julia

Ángel, a very young man whose mind sometimes goes blank, is trying to become a bullfighter under instruction from Diego, a retired matador who has opened a school. One evening, to prove his virility, which is constantly put in queston by his abusive mother who is a member of Opus Dei, Ángel rapes Eva, a young model who is Diego’s mistress. Ángel hands himself in to the police and is defended by María Cardenal, a lawyer specialising in political trials, who is also a serial killer of her lovers, a trait she shares with Diego. The Lawyer and the matador start a deadly liaison, and Ángel and Eva are drawn into its torments.

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S R O T C A G N I T C E R I D E ‘I LOV .

O I N O T N A LIKE , E V I T I U T N I Y L L A T O T E THEY’R , L A R U T A N PHYSICAL, ’ .

S L A M I N A LIKE NIO BANDERAS

OCESS OF ANTO E ACTING OF PR

VAR ON TH PEDRO ALMODO

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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! ¡Atame!

1990

Screen Play Cinematography Production Design Editing Music Production Manager Production Running Time

Pedro Almódovar José Luis Alcaine Ferrán Sánchez José Salcedo Ennio Morricone Esther García Agustín Almodóvar for El Deseo 1h 41m

Cast & Characters

Victoria Abril as Marina Antonio Banderas as Ricki Francisco Rabal as Máximo Espejo Loles León as Lola Julieta Serrano as Alma Rossy de Palma as The Dealer

Ricki, recently released from a psychoiatyric hospital, decides to take up again with Marina, with whom he slept once. Since then, she has become an actress, starting out in porn films.

Ricki goes to the set where Marina, who is also a heroin addict, is filming under the direction of Máximo Espejo, a veteran Spanish filmmaker. Ricki kidnaps the young woman and forces her to have sex with him. Gradually, Marina gives in to the psychopath’s sexual pressure.

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Almod贸var & Cecilia Roth Born Location

Aug 8, 1956 Buenos Aires, Argentina

First Collaboration Pepi, Luci, Bom and other Girls on the Heap

Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del mont贸n 1980 Last Collaboration All About My Mother

Todo sobre mi madre 1999 20

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E H T O T S G N O L E B M L I F E ‘TH .

E R N E G Y D E M O C L L A SCREWB T P I R C S E H T F O T F A R ONE D E P O P E H T D N A I L A D D A H G N I L L A F D N A G N I T E E M ’ .

E V O L N I Y L E T A N O I S PAS Y LOVE OF COMED IS H N O R A V O D PEDRO ALMO

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Labyrinth of Passion

Laberinto de pasiones

1982

Screen Play Cinematography Sound Production Design Editing Music Production Running Time

Pedro Almódovar Ángel Luis Fernández Martin Müller Andrés Santana & Pedro Almódovar José Salcedo Almodóvar & McNamara Alphaville 1h 40m

Cast & Characters

Cecilia Roth as Sexilia Imanol Arias as Riza Niro Helga Liné as Toraya Marta Fernández Muro as Queti Fernando Vivanco as The Doctor Fanny McNamara as Fabio Antonio Banderas as Sadeq Agustín Almodóvar as Hassan

Sexilia, a singer on the Madrid underground rock scene, tries to overcome her nymphomania. Riza, son of the dethroned Emperor of Tiran, cruises the Madrid streets for boys and girls. Sadeq, who belongs to an Islamist group tasked with assassinating Riza, falls in love with him, as does Sexilia. The singer leaves her clothes at a dry cleaner’s. The owner has gone mad, and mistakes his daughter for his wife, forcing her to do what he considers her conjugal duty. To comfort herself in misery, the dry cleaner’s daughter borrows Sexilia’s clothes.

The Empress Toraya, Riza’s mother, tries to overcome her infertility and give the Emperor an heir who is worthy of him. To do this, she uses the services of Sexilia’s father, a gynaecologist.

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A S I R E H T O M Y M T U O B A .

‘ALL N O I T A E R C C I T S I T R A T U O FILM AB , N E M O W T U O B A , N E M T ABOU .

H T A E D T U O B A , E F I L T U O AB T S O M Y M Y L IT IS PROBAB ’ .

M L I F E S N E INT VAR ON ‘ALL PEDRO ALMODO

ER’

ABOUT MY MOTH

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All About My Mother

Todo sobre mi madre

1999

Screen Play Cinematography Sound Production Design Editing Music Production Manager Production

Running Time

Pedro Almódovar Alfonso Beato Miguel Rejas Antxón Gómez José Salcedo Alberto Iglesias Esther García Agustín Almodóvar for El Deso Renn Productions 1h 40m

Cast & Characters

Cecilia Roth as Manuela Marisa Paredes as Huma Rojo Penelope Cruz as Rosa Candela Peña as Nina Antonia San as Juan Agrado Toni Cantó as Lola

Manuela lives alone with her son Esteban, whom she worships.

To celebrate his seventeenth birthday, she takes him to the theatre to see the great actress Huma Rojo in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’. When they come out, Esteban asks Huma for her autograph, and he is knocked down and killed by a car.

Manuela, who had promised her son she would tell him who his father was, goes off in search of him.

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Almod贸var & Penelope Cruz Born Apr 28, 1974 Location Madrid, Spain First Collaboration Live Flesh

Carne Tr茅mula 1997 Last Collaboration Broken Embraces

Los abrazos rotos 2009 26

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R O T C E R I D R E T T E B A ‘I AM .

E P O L E N E P O T S K N A TH Y L B A B O R P S ’ E P O L E N AND PE , S S E R T C A BETTER A ’ .

E M O T S THANK NSHIP ON HIS RELATIO R A V O D O LM A O EDR

WITH PENELOPE

P

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CRUZ

Volver Screen Play Cinematography Sound Editing Music Production Manager Production Running Time

Pedro Almódovar José Luis Alcaine Miguel Rejas José Salcedo Alberto Iglesias Esther García Agustín Almodóvar for El Deseo 2h 00m

Cast & Characters

Penélope Cruz as Raimunda Carmen Maura as Irene Lola Dueñas as Sole Yohana Cobo as Paula Chus Lampreave as Tia Paula

2006

In a windswept village in La Mancha, Raimunda, her daughter and her sister Sole are cleaning the family graves in the cemetery. their mother Irene died in a fire, and there are rumours in the village that the old woman regularly appears in the family house, where Aunt Paula lives. On her return to Madrid Paula, Raimunda’s daughter, kills her father who was trying to rape her. Raimunda hides the body and sets out to make a new life shared between her city neighbourhood and her village.

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A S I M L I F S I H T T A H T L ‘I FEE F O N O I T A R A L C E D E U R T .

A M E N I C R LOVE FO E H T L L A S T C E F R E P A CINEM ’ .

E F I L F O S E I T I R A L U G IRRE SION

IS BIGGEST PAS

,H VAR ON CINEMA PEDRO ALMODO

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Broken Embraces

Los abrazos rotos

2009

Screen Play Cinematography Sound Production Design Editing Music Production Manager Production Running Time

Pedro Almódovar Rodrigo Prieto Miguel Rejas Antxón Gómez José Salcedo Alberto Iglesias Esther García Agustín Almodóvar for El Deseo 2h 09m

Cast & Characters

Penélope Cruz as Lena Lluis Homar as Mateo/Harry Blanca Portillo as Judit José Luis Gómez as Ernesto Martel Ruben Ochandiano as Ray X Tamar Novas as Diego Ángela Molina as Lena’s Mother Chus Lampreave as The Concierge Rossy de Palma as Julieta

Harry Caine is a blind screenwriter who has given up his own name. In the days when he was called Mateo Blanco and could see, he was a director. He had had an intense affair with Lena, a young woman who had become an actress with the help of her rich lover and former boss, Ernesto Martel, a figure from the Spanish financial boom of the 1980’s. But for a filmmaker, a liaison with his producer’s mistress is a recipe for disaster. Twenty five years later, Mateo/Harry’s past is still coming to the surface.

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The Pedro Almodóvar Filmography Pepi, Luci, Bom and other Girls on the Heap

1980

Labyrinth of Passions

1982

Dark Habits

1983

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

1984

Matador

1986

Law of Desire

1987

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

1988

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

1990

High Heels

1991

Kika

1993

The Flower of My Secret

1995

Live Flesh

1997

All About My Mother

1999

Talk to Her

2002

Bad Education

2004

Volver

2006

Broken Embraces

2009

The Skin I Live In

2011

Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón Laberinto de pasiones Entre Tinieblas Qué he hecho ya para merecer esto?

La ley del deseo Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervious ¡Átame!

Tacones lejanos

La flor de mi secreto Carne Trémula

Todo sobre mi madre Hable con ella La mala educación

Los abrazos rotos

La piel que habito