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Hable Con Ella (Talk to Her). The Fictive World of Pedro Almodovar. Filmography. Dos putas, o, Historia de amor que termina en boda (1974) ( Two Whores, or, A Love Story that Ends in Marriage ); La caída de Sodoma (1975) ( The Fall of Sodom );
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Hable Con Ella (Talk to Her) The Fictive World of Pedro Almodovar
Filmography • Dos putas, o, Historia de amor que termina en boda (1974) (Two Whores, or, A Love Story that Ends in Marriage); La caída de Sodoma (1975) (The Fall of Sodom); • full-length film: Folle, folle, fólleme, Tim (1978) (Fuck Me, Fuck Me, Fuck Me, Tim), Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón. Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap (1980)
Female solidarity • Almodóvar made his first feature film, Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap- 1980 • low budget with volunteers shooting on weekends. A story of revenge, lesbian punk rock and masochistic housewives.
Following in a long tradition of women’s pictures • Douglas Sirk, Rainer Werner Fassbinder • Telenovella, Hollywood melodrama
A handful of Douglas Sirk • http://video.google.nl/videosearch?hl=nl&um=1&q=douglas%20sirk&ndsp=18&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iv#
A dash of Telenovelas • http://video.google.nl/videosearch?hl=nl&um=1&q=douglas%20sirk&ndsp=18&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iv#q=cachetadas+telenovelas&hl=nl&emb=0
Cult, Camp, Pop, Trash http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/55146/Women-on-the-Verge-of-a-Nervous-Breakdown/trailers • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – international hit
Oscar’s, Cannes BAFTAs for All About My Mother, Women on the Verge, Volver
Talk to Her: maybe the best and most atypical Almodovar film