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¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!!

¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!!
Location
Main screening room
Date
March 3rd, 2022
Duration
101 min
Cycle
Pedro Almodóvar : Passengers of desire

Dedicating a retrospective to Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar means bringing light to a major cinematographic work, all together definitively cinephile, popular and exhilarating. This fierce artisan of film staging is carried by characters driven with vivid forces that often take them away from comfort and push them to discover brand new facets of themselves. They are then transformed, by means of love or disillusion. Coming back, they put conventional opinions at rest, shaping genders and social constraints. The art of filming does the rest.

¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!!
Directed by
Pedro Almodóvar
Language
Spanish with French subtitles
Actors
Carmen Maura, Luis Hostalot, Ryo Hiruma
Origins
Spain
Year
1984
Duration
101 min
Genre
Comedy
Format
Digital
Synopsis

The misfortunes of a woman, addicted to amphetamines, living in poverty with a dysfunctional family.

¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!!

Pedro Almodóvar

Born in 1949 in Calzada de Calatrava, Spain, Pedro Almodóvar had a provincial childhood, marked by a strong women presence and a religious education. At the age of 18, he moved to Madrid and worked various jobs while immersed in the Madrid movida, a creative and fiery cultural movement that coincided with the democratic transition. He was introduced to theater, performance and writing in counterculture circles, and even wrote Patty Diphusa, a landmark novel in the emerging homosexual literature. In the 70s, he began directing short and then feature films. Initially noticed by the underground milieu, the filmmaker has a growing success in Spain. In 1986, he co-founded the production company El Deseo with his brother, and two years later, Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown brought him international fame, which has never waned since.

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Dans [ce film], j'ai remplacé la plupart des codes du mélodrame par l'humour noir. Il n'est donc pas étrange que les spectateurs ressentent d'abord le film comme une comédie, mais évidemment il s'agit d'une histoire très dramatique et très pathétique. L'humour est l'arme des Espagnols contre ce qui les fait souffrir, contre ce qui les inquiète, contre la mort.
Pedro Almodóvar (2000)
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About Pedro Almodóvar
Films
Shorts
Publication
Pedro Almodóvar : l’Espagne face à son histoire - 28 Minutes - ARTE
Pedro Almodovar: On Directing

Podcast : Philosopher avec Almodovar

Exubérance, passion, identités perdues, corps transformés, désir violent et humour doux-amer... Voici quatre émissions pour philosopher avec Pedro Almodovar ! Découvrez un cinéaste unique en son genre à l'univers bariolé, qui saisit ce qu'aucun autre regard n'a jamais su capter : le langage des émotions à même la peau, la caméra qui effleure les corps et sublime les ambiguïtés dans des couleurs éclatantes. Ode à la folie qui mélange les corps et les esprits pour le meilleur et pour le pire...

Pedro Almodóvar on Finding His Inspiration | Screenwriters’ Lecture Series
Pedro Almodovar en 6 minutes - Blow Up - ARTE
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