Almodovar Extra Films Overview
Films to compare to Key Film of Study
- Created by: Jessica
- Created on: 07-04-14 15:18
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- Almodovar Additional Films Overview
- 'Pepi, Luci, Bom'
- Links to 'Talk to Her'
- Women's struggle VS Female power
- What goes around comes around - **** and revenge
- Follow your heart
- Obsession
- Sexual expression
- Sex and ****
- Pop Art, reference to popular art, e.g. Dali
- Traditional elements - The flamenco fan, bullfighting, folk singing
- Tradition ends up in upset and hurt - bullfighting puts Lydia in a coma, traditional singing ends up in Juan being beaten up
- Transformation of characters
- References to Psycho - Music
- Disguise from what is happenig
- Bullfighting
- Hospital scenes
- Film within a film
- Links to 'Talk to Her'
- 'Bad Education'
- Links to 'Talk to Her'
- Blue Period
- Biographical - Tells a story about life
- Death
- Religion
- Inappropriate sexual behaviour
- References to Hitchcock
- Links to 'Talk to Her'
- 'The Skin I Live In'
- Links to 'Talk to Her'
- Theme of Love - Obstacles in the way
- Desire and Passion
- **** and Suicide
- Voyeuristic - She's trapped while he is watching
- Theme of Obsession
- Betrayal
- Parallel Narratives
- Stringed music - The Shrinking Lover Silent Film
- Links to 'Talk to Her'
- 'All About My Mother'
- Links to 'Talk to Her'
- Taboo Themes
- Obsession - e.g. fading looks
- Use of a play in a theatre
- Simplistic and obviously fake theatre
- Used of purpose, fakeness
- Agrada is a transvestite - questioning what it is to be a woman
- "You are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed you are"
- Links to 'Talk to Her'
- 'Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'
- Links to 'Talk to Her'
- Themes of obsession
- Unexpected ending
- Women hiding behind something
- Reading through a letter with music - very melodramatic
- Panning over a woman's body
- "I accept you as you are"
- Dream like qualities
- Moorish Architecture
- Receptionists - Horrible Humour
- Challenging the audience
- Intertwining storylines
- Suicide and Drugs
- Themes: Love, Life and Dysfunctional Relationships
- Links to 'Talk to Her'
- 'Volver'
- Links to 'Talk to Her'
- Theme of secrets
- References Psycho - mopping the floor
- Women's struggle
- **** and inappropriate sex
- Taboo subjects - Alcohol and violence
- Broken relationships
- Links to 'Talk to Her'
- 'Dark Habits'
- Links to 'Talk to Her'
- Women's struggle VS Female independence
- New Freedom
- Death
- Carmen Maure - re-occurring actress
- Obsession
- Voyeuristic qualities
- Main female protagonist is quite masculine
- Lack of rich colours linked to the death scenes
- Anti-Authority
- Links to 'Talk to Her'
- 'Pepi, Luci, Bom'
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