Pedro Almodóvar’s conflict of interests
The Room Next Door resolves the Spanish director’s struggle between black comedy and bookish melodrama.
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Antonio Banderas and the art of self-parody
In Official Competition, a sharp satire of arthouse cinema, the actor plays a version of himself for laughs.
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Directors: please stop trying to depict “genius”
In an age of #MeToo, Antonia Banderas’ Picasso strolls manfully in the opposite direction, portraying the artist’s priapism a good thing…
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Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory is limp and lacklustre
With Pain and Glory, Pedro Almodóvar brings his tally of movies to 21 – a coming-of-age, you might say –…
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