DIRECTOR · BORN 1949
Pedro Almodóvar
- Born
- 25 September 1949, Calzada de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
- Known for
- Law of Desire (1987), Matador (1986), The Graham Norton Show (2007), What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
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17 Facts From Pedro Almodóvar's Career
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Pedro Almodóvar was influenced by Luis Buñuel.
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When Francisco Franco's regime shut down Madrid's National School of Cinema, Pedro Almodóvar pursued filmmaking as a self-taught artist.
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Pedro Almodóvar performed his first professional roles with the vanguard theatrical group Los Goliardos, where he also met actress Carmen Maura.
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Pedro Almodóvar was a crucial figure in La Movida Madrileña, the Madrilenian cultural renaissance that followed Francisco Franco's death in 1975.
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Pedro Almodóvar wrote articles for major newspapers and magazines including El País, Diario 16 and La Luna.
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Pedro Almodóvar contributed comic strips, articles and stories to counterculture magazines such as Star, El Víbora and Vibraciones.
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Pedro Almodóvar published a novella titled Fuego en las entrañas (Fire in the Guts).
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Pedro Almodóvar continued writing stories that were later collected in a compilation volume called El sueño de la razón (The Dream of Reason).
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Pedro Almodóvar was 22 years old when he bought his first camera and started making hand-held short films.
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Pedro Almodóvar made his first short film around 1974.
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By the end of the 1970s, Pedro Almodóvar's short films were being shown in Madrid's night circuit and in Barcelona.
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Pedro Almodóvar recalled that he became very famous in Madrid because his early films had no sound, so he brought a cassette of music and personally performed the voices of all the characters, songs and dialogues.
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Pedro Almodóvar followed his first Super-8 feature with Salomé, his first 16 mm short.
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Pedro Almodóvar's debut feature was the 1980 Spanish comedy film Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap.
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The low-budget, raw underground style of Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap turned it into a cult classic and launched Pedro Almodóvar's career.
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Pedro Almodóvar's second feature was Labyrinth of Passion, released in 1982.
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Pedro Almodóvar's Labyrinth of Passion premiered at the 1982 San Sebastian Film Festival.
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