Almodóvar

British  

/ ɑlmɔˈdovɑ /

noun

1. Pedro. born 1949, Spanish film director. His provocative black comedies include Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), The Flower of My Secret (1995), Talk to Her (2002), and Volver (2006)

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Example Sentences

The American independent cinema of the previous decade was reaching a new stage of maturity, and international auteur cinema was thriving in the work of Abbas Kiarostami, the Dardenne brothers, Pedro Almodóvar, Olivier Assayas and Hou Hsiao-Hsien.

From New York Times

Scoring for Almodóvar is always a pleasure, he said, because “he needs music, and he loves music.”

From Los Angeles Times

“Parallel Mothers” is the 13th collaboration between composer Alberto Iglesias and director Pedro Almodóvar, a partnership that began in 1995.

From Los Angeles Times

They still work in much the same way: Iglesias reads the script, but waits until Almodóvar is done shooting and editing — a simultaneous act — before he composes.

From Los Angeles Times

The interregnum posed by covid also clearly gave artists time to allow deep-seated memories to float to the surface, and to sit with what emerged: No sooner had Middleburg audiences seen Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God,” a largely autobiographical serio-comedy set in his native Naples, than they were watching Pedro Almodóvar’s magnificent “Parallel Mothers,” a delicious melodrama plumbing the depths of personal and political histories — followed by Branagh’s “Belfast,” a largely autobiographical serio-comedy set in his native northern Ireland.

From Washington Post