Nothing else can be demanded of this great director who is one of the most exposed traces of Spanish cinema worldwide. Pedro Almodovar, a 24th September of the year 1951.
With his family they went to live in 1959 to Extremadura. He went to a Saleciano school and from the beginning of his adolescence all that his eyes could see was a filmic body.
He was a great great great fan.
With only 16 years old, he went to Madrid in pursuit of studying cinema, but the school had been closed by Franco. He gets a job as an administrative assistant at Telefónica, where he works for twelve long years.
It is in those years where he begins to insert himself in the movement of cinema and theater. In theater acting in a company called The Goliards, where he meets Carmen Maura, who would later work with him.
By the early 80sShe had already been through various artistic things, from writing comic book scripts to collaborating with notes in counterculture magazines. Also, he sang in a rock-glam band at joda.
“Pepi, Luci, Bom and other girls of the lot”, is a masterpiece of his punk stage
He managed to get financed by several films, but after much you have to demand, he ended up preferring to install his own production company himself, it is from that time that he appears “El Deseo” productions.
The first film with his production company was “The law of Desire”, Much cost to do it, but also much was the reward for having achieved a tremendous break, a tremendous transgression.
A year after this success and he was already leaving with “Women at the edge of a nervous attack”, another film loved by critics.
“Tie me up” on 1990 It is clearly mature and wise, where the director carries a quality and a well-worked vision that denotes years in the field of cameras and plans. Between 1992 and 1997, he recorded the films “The flower of my secret” and “Tremulous flesh”, for both he receives awards and distinctions.
On 1999 in a production with Argentine actresses he records “All about my mother” and in the 2004 “Talk to her”, film for which I violently disagree because it was not nominated for the awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain and decides to withdraw from that institution alleging lack of judgment and problems with the representatives.
In that same year he won an Oscar for the screenplay of “Talk to her”. “Bad Education” it is not very well regarded by the press.
In the 2006, return to its true origins with the film “Return”, like the Argentine tango, with the fetish actress, Penélope Cruz and Mimi Maura.