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Pedro Almodóvar

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Pedro Almodóvar is a film director and screenwriter associated with Spanish cinema in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His work has addressed identity, family structures, gender, and social change through stylized narrative filmmaking.

Almodóvar is discussed in film studies, Spanish cinema history, and analyses of contemporary European cinema.

Status

Almodóvar’s films are examined for their narrative construction, use of color and music, and engagement with social themes. Interpretations situate his work within post-dictatorship Spanish cinema and international art cinema.

Film director

Spanish cinema

Art cinema

Film studies