Pedro Almodovar is the most celebrated Spanish Director since Luis Buñuel and Carlos Saura.Born in La Mancha in 1951, he moved to Madrid at sixteen, alone and without any money but with a very concrete project : to study and make films.
Almodovar is best known for his use of melodrama , improbable circumstances and high camp in his movies. However a theme that recurs in his work is the connections and /or the desire to connect with others.
His international success has finally granted Pedro Almodovar the recognition he deserves, as the most artistically ambitious and commercially consistent film-maker in Europe. Frequently comic, always visually glorious, his films range from screwball comedy “Mujer Al Borde De Un Ataque de Nervios” to the classically austere “Carne Tremula”.
In his latest film, Live Flesh( or “Carne Tremula”, literally translated as “Trembling Flesh”), Pedro Almodovar engineers a spiraling web of relations between pivotal and sexually driven character of Victor. With solid success, Pedro Almodovar leaves his taste for camp behind to direct a richly detailed tale of passion, perfidy and revenge adapted from a typically tricky Ruth Endell novel. Set amidst the modernity of Madrid, Spain, Almodovar’s film is populated by fallible-yet passionate- characters.
In spite of the morbidness of the conflicts which arise, “Live Flesh” captures each character’s liveliness and spontaneous individuality adding thrills of dark humor, so characteristic of Almodovar, to their relationships.
Almodovar, whose work here has newly sophisticated polish, appreciates the dark twists of this story along with the eroticism that brings heat to all the scheming. In “Live Flesh”, he finds steamy, imaginative ways to show why the film’s characters love one another to death.
Live Flesh is complicated, demanding, and it evolves on its own perverse terms. It is also thrilling, interesting, and entertaining.
Date: Thursday,Feb.2,2006
Time: 8:00 pm
Place: Access Art Gallery
This night will also be a good opportunity to view the fantastic new solo exhibit “The World is Not Enough” by Elisa Le Juez as well as other works by local and regional artist exhibited in the gallery.
A donation to the Pro Crea Foundation will be highly appreciated.
Remember that it is now possible to grab a bite at the Access café ”Café al Fresco” before the film presentation.
For more information call : 5887837
