US EditionCritique of 'Amarga Navidad': Almodóvar Delivers a Lucid and Vehement Self-Portrait of Creative Experience
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“It is a film that clearly reflects me. There is a lot of fiction, but no invention. I am absolutely present and totally fictional. In fact, if I made a film talking about me, it would be very boring. Fiction is always necessary.” Thus answered Pedro Almodóvar to a question by Álex Vicente in El País Semanal on account of the premiere, today in commercial halls, of Amarga Navidad, the film in which the filmmaker reveals his intimacy more and, th…
The film confirms the director’s progressive approach to a fully self-conscious form of film. It’s not just about telling stories, but thinking about film itself through them. More information: Pedro Almodóvar: “There are diseases that have to do with loneliness and obesity, and I live between them.”
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elDiarioARThe director creates a intricate braid of stories in which one responds to the other in an intelligent and exciting metacine and autofiction exercise with a final scene for remembrance
The Manchego filmmaker opens Amarga Christmas with a plethoraic Barbara Lennie, although the script fails to live up to its technical bill.
A thread not so subtle unites the mirrors and the tears. The two, if we listen to the baroque obsession both for one and the other, speak of fragility, of the ephemeral...
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