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Interview: Pedro Almodovar on The Skin I Live In

Pedro Almodovar -The Skin I Live In

Reunited with Antonio Banderas for film that blends genres and crosses formal boundaries

24 Aug 2011

Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In (La Piel que Habito) arrived at May’s Cannes Film Festival on a wave of expectation. Not only had the Spanish auteur behind such classics as Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother and the…

The Skin I Live In (La Piel Que Habito)

The Skin I Live In (La Piel Que Habito)

Almodovar's adaptation is measured, playful and spellbinding

(4 stars)19 Aug 2011

(15) 120min The Skin I Live In has all the elements of a campy Vincent Price B-movie. There is a meddlesome scientist driven mad by grief, a grisly revenge plot and a hapless victim, not to mention multiple murder, kidnap and rape. In the hands of…

French thriller Point Blank (A Bout Portant) is engaging and well-paced

Point Blank (A Bout Portant)

Director Fred Cavayé's French thriller is engaging and well-paced

(4 stars)23 May 2011

(15) 84 min Fashion photographer turned filmmaker Fred Cavayé (Anything For Her) would have thrived in the old Hollywood studio system. His films operate with the speed and single-mindedness of a runaway locomotive. Give him a high concept premise…

Room In Rome (Habitacion En Roma)

Room In Rome (Habitacion En Roma)

Julio Medem continues exploration of sexuality, but delivers emptiest film yet

(3 stars)22 Nov 2010

(18) 103min (Optimum) Two women, one gay, Alba (Elena Anaya), the other the heterosexual Natasha (Natasha Yarovenko) have an overnight fling in a Rome hotel room, talk about their pasts and prepare for their future. Director Julio Medem continues…

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