Almodóvar: A Retrospective

Pedro Almodóvar has been the most important European filmmaker of the past four decades — a director who emerged from the Spanish post-Franco countercultural explosion of the late 1970s to create a body of work that is simultaneously deeply rooted in Spanish cultural specificity (the melodrama, the Catholic guilt, the Movida, the particular quality of Madrid life) and universal in its emotional reach. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Volver, The Skin I Live In — each is a complete world.

This retrospective, with its exceptional visual material and extended analysis by Frédéric Strauss, is the most comprehensive account of an extraordinary filmmaking career available in English.

Essential for any Almodóvar devotee. Published by Thames & Hudson.