Pedro Almodóvar
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Making his English language debut, the iconoclastic, two-time Academy award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in this collection of twelve remarkable stories spanning memoir, comedy, autofiction, parody, pastiche, and gothic fiction. With this debut collection, film legend Pedro Almodovar delivers a tantalizing glimpse into his world, formed by twelve stories carefully selected from his personal writings dating...
Author
Series
Publisher
Reservoir Books
Publication Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Este libro es lo más parecido a una autobiografía fragmentada. [...] El lector acabará obteniendo la máxima información de mí como cineasta, como fabulador y el modo en que mi vida hace que una cosa y las otras se mezclen". Así define el autor este volumen, en una brillante introducción que sirve también de puesta en perspectiva: los doce relatos que lo componen abarcan varias épocas, desde finales de la década de los sesenta hasta la...
Author
Publisher
Reservoir Books
Publication Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
"Ingrid y Martha fueron muy amigas en su juventud. Trabajaban en la misma revista, pero Ingrid acabó convirtiéndose en novelista de autoficción y Martha en reportera de guerra. Las circunstancias de la vida las separaron y, después de muchos años sin tener contacto, vuelven a encontrarse en Nueva York, en una situación límite, aunque extrañamente dulce. Martha, que ha sido una madre muy imperfecta y se ha ido distanciando de su hija, sufre...
5) Ostatni sen
Author
Publisher
Wydawnictwo Poznańskie
Publication Date
[2023]
Language
Polish
Description
"Mroczne lata edukacji szkolnej, bardzo osobiste wspomnienie o matce, rozważania na temat własnej twórczości - to wszystko autor zamyka w niewielkich formach fabularnych, dzięki którym możemy odkrywać go na nowo, szukać kolejnych tropów dotyczących jego życia i dzieł. Teksty składające się na ten tom Almodóvar pisał do szuflady przez blisko pięćdziesiąt lat. Fikcja przenika się tu z rzeczywistością, humor - z powagą, racjonalność...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2022]
Language
Español
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Description
"Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn't regret it and she is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and traumatized. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like sleepwalkers along the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between the two,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"It tells of a series of re-encounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the '60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the '80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Publication Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become a novelist while Martha became a war reporter. Separated by the circumstances of life and after years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Publication Date
[2007]
Language
Español
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Description
The central focus in Volver is a family of women: mother and grandmother Irene, her daughters Raimunda and Sole, and Raimunda's 14-year-old daughter Paula. Irene is dead: She died with the girls' father in a fire many years ago in their birth village in La Mancha. Raimunda lives in Madrid with Paula and her shiftless husband, who is malevolent, irrelevant, or absent. Separated Sole runs an unlicensed beauty parlor in her apartment. Their old aunt,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
A short film by director Pedro Almodovar. After twenty-five years, Silva rides a horse across the desert to visit his ex-lover, now friend, Sheriff Jake. A lifetime after their shared stint as hired gunmen, they celebrate their reunion. However, the next morning, it is revealed the trip is not to revel in the memory of their friendship.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
Since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has wanted to create a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he cultivates a skin that is a real shield against every assault. Now, besides the years of study and experimentation, the unscrupulous doctor needs to find an accomplice, and a human guinea pig. Marrilia, the woman who looked after him from birth, is his most faithful accomplice....
Publication Date
2015
Language
Español
Description
Vulnerable in the face of a reality that shifts and suddenly turns unpredictable, the characters cross the thin line that divides civilization and barbarism. A lover's betrayal, a return to the repressed past and the violence woven into everyday encounters drive the characters to madness as they cede to the undeniable pleasure of losing control.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Publication Date
[2001]
Language
Español
Description
The lives of five people are intertwined by romance, friendship and rivalry. Victor has fallen for a woman, Elena. Elena wants nothing to do with Victor and she calls the cops when he shows up at her apartment. The two cops that show up are David and Sancho. Sancho is a chronic, abusive drunk and believes his wife, Clara may be having an affair with his partner, David.
20) Julieta
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
Julieta lives in Madrid with her daughter Antia. They both suffer in silence over the loss of Xoan, Antia's father and Julieta's husband. At times, grief doesn't bring people closer, it drives them apart.



