Claim your ticket to the world of Pedro Almodóvar, a place of primary colours and primal emotions, where stories are spun with fabulous freedom, intoxicating Al-melódramas driven by sex and surprise… Reckless women clash with feckless men, gender norms are gleefully subverted and camp is elevated to high style.
The most influential queer filmmaker of our times, Almodóvar has given us many of the most vivid, sympathetic and complex women in modern movies through collaborations with Penélope Cruz, Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, and Carmen Maura, to name just a few.
Over the years, Almodóvar’s initially shocking punk aesthetic has distilled to an essence that’s sweetly sensual and assured, even as it remains daring and transgressive. An Almodóvar movie may entail…
Claim your ticket to the world of Pedro Almodóvar, a place of primary colours and primal emotions, where stories are spun with fabulous freedom, intoxicating Al-melódramas driven by sex and surprise… Reckless women clash with feckless men, gender norms are gleefully subverted and camp is elevated to high style.
The most influential queer filmmaker of our times, Almodóvar has given us many of the most vivid, sympathetic and complex women in modern movies through collaborations with Penélope Cruz, Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, and Carmen Maura, to name just a few.
Over the years, Almodóvar’s initially shocking punk aesthetic has distilled to an essence that’s sweetly sensual and assured, even as it remains daring and transgressive. An Almodóvar movie may entail a leap of faith, but we always know we are in good hands because above all this is a Cinema of the Heart.
This retrospective showcases the unprecedented, fulsome achievements of the last 25 years, supplemented by such key earlier films as Law of Desire and The Flower of My Secret (showing on 35mm film prints), and runs up to last year’s 30-minute short film, The Human Voice, starring Tilda Swinton.
Please join us in celebrating a body of work where suspense, sexuality and style meld to confound and compel, to cast a luxuriant spell, to make us swoon. Screening at the VIFF Centre from February 11 to March 10. For more details and to book your tickets, visit http://goviff.org/swoon-cinema-almodovar .
