Pedro Almodóvar
Gender: Male
Born: 25th September 1949 (currently 62 years old)
Nationality: Spain
Movies: All About My Mother, Bad Education, Broken Embraces, Dark Habits, Film político, Kika, Laberinto de pasiones, Law of Desire, Live Flesh, Matador, Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap, Tacones lejanos, Talk to Her, The Cannibalistic Councillor, The Flower of My Secret, The Skin I Live In, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Volver, What Have I Done To Deserve This?, Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpeðɾo almoˈðoβar kaβaˈʎeɾo]; born 25 September 1949) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.
Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular songs, irreverent humor, strong colors and glossy décor. Desire, passion, family and identity are among Almodóvar’s most prevalent themes. His films enjoy a worldwide following and he has become a major figure on the stage of world cinema.
He founded Spanish film production company El Deseo S.A. with his younger brother Agustín Almodóvar who has produced almost all of Pedro’s films. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.
Pedro Almodóvar Caballero was born in Calzada de Calatrava, Spain, a rural small town of Ciudad Real, a province of Castile-La Mancha in the administrative district of Almagro. La Mancha is the windswept region of flat lands made famous by Don Quijote. He was born as one of four children (two boys, two girls) in a large and impoverished
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