What is the best movie to see Rossy de Palma in?
― Without Curves, I would feel deflated. I like Curves. They are best. (Stevie D), Monday, 4 January 2010 23:07 (sixteen years ago)
all the early ones.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 January 2010 23:07 (sixteen years ago)
Really enjoyed Broken Embraces but sort of struggled to defend it to the (not impressed) friend I'd seen it with
― "I get through more mojitos.." (bear, bear, bear), Thursday, 4 February 2010 08:35 (sixteen years ago)
Has anyone seen Kika? It looks really quirky/awesome/etc (plus Rossy de Palma!) but I'm worried I'd find this whole lolrapey thing really really uncomfortable
― vienn?tta (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 30 January 2011 17:04 (fifteen years ago)
I saw it a looooooooong time ago, can't really remember squat.
Feeling really uncomfortable is not always/usually a bad thing.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 January 2011 17:29 (fifteen years ago)
His worst nineties film: mannered and clammy.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 January 2011 18:23 (fifteen years ago)
yea hte lolrapey stuff is uncomfortable, in not a good way imo
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 30 January 2011 18:27 (fifteen years ago)
I suppose the vagaries of international casting demanded that Peter Coyote get cast in a non-English role
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 January 2011 18:29 (fifteen years ago)
I saw Kika and Bitter Moon back to back in spring '94 and thought that Jeremy Irons was finally getting competition in the masochistic lech department.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 January 2011 18:30 (fifteen years ago)
i watched dark habits, not great but g-ddamn look at this poster
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Entre_Tinieblas.jpg
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 22:06 (fifteen years ago)
I'm kind of obsessed with the trailer for The Skin I Live In
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GO9Nd92B5k
― Alba, Sunday, 24 July 2011 22:02 (fourteen years ago)
And singer Buika is in the movie
Buika--Afro-Spanish Singer (Who's more than just one of NPR's "50 Great Voices")
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 17:43 (fourteen years ago)
Anyone watched The Skin I'm In yet? I'm dubious.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 18:24 (fourteen years ago)
*Skin I Live In
Nope, and I haven't read the book its adapted from either a Thierry Jonquet novel.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 19:07 (fourteen years ago)
i'm kind of mixed on this dude, but the new one looks pretty intriguing.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 21:35 (fourteen years ago)
I liked it. Nice and twisted.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 21:45 (fourteen years ago)
It's awesome. Totally, utterly unique.
― She Got the Shakes, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 22:16 (fourteen years ago)
so 'tie me up! tie me down!' is pretty hilarious/terrible, huh?
― this is unusual for batman. (Jordan), Monday, 31 October 2011 15:22 (fourteen years ago)
was good & compelling imo
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 12 November 2011 00:00 (fourteen years ago)
I do miss the Almodovar movies in which Antonio Banderas was ravished by men.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 November 2011 00:03 (fourteen years ago)
have sat through a lot of this guy's movies and don't get the appeal
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 12 November 2011 00:06 (fourteen years ago)
Almodovar invented Antonio Banderas, homosexuality, makeup, nuns, screwball comedy, and Caetano Veloso.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 November 2011 00:09 (fourteen years ago)
is he known for comedy? everything I've seen has been pretty much straight melodrama
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 12 November 2011 00:10 (fourteen years ago)
facepalm
― ah, how quaint (Matt P), Saturday, 12 November 2011 00:11 (fourteen years ago)
Have you seen Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown or What Have I Done To Deserve This?
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 November 2011 00:11 (fourteen years ago)
i guess tbf he really has more melodrama than comedy to his name at this point
― ah, how quaint (Matt P), Saturday, 12 November 2011 00:13 (fourteen years ago)
why are you guys acting as if melodrama and comedy are mutually exclusive?
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 November 2011 00:13 (fourteen years ago)
let's see, I have seen:
VolverTalk to HerAll About My MotherKika (I think...? This might have been the one where I fell asleep in the theater)
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 12 November 2011 00:17 (fourteen years ago)
AAMM has some laugh out loud moments.
Kika is horrid.
Conclusion: you're missing out.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 November 2011 00:18 (fourteen years ago)
but even the most dramatic of these are pretty funny in places? and the comedies rely on seriousness to a degree. maybe arch just does not connect at all to certain sensibilities?
x-post
― ah, how quaint (Matt P), Saturday, 12 November 2011 00:18 (fourteen years ago)
shakey you should check out live flesh! and bad education. i think those two are my favorites. love 'women on the verge' too.
― ah, how quaint (Matt P), Saturday, 12 November 2011 00:20 (fourteen years ago)
I'll admit that I'm biased because I understand the Spanish and chuckle at how well he reproduces the vulgar inside jokes between family members (at which Volver excelled).
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 November 2011 00:21 (fourteen years ago)
is there a thread on 'the skin i live in'?
thought it was amaaazing, triggered a revulsion/phobic response i didn't even know i had
― Crackle Box, Friday, 6 January 2012 16:31 (fourteen years ago)
There is a thread; I'll find it.
I found it dreadful: his worst since the mid nineties.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 January 2012 19:05 (fourteen years ago)
Watched it last night and thought it was fantastic. I'm not an enormous Almodovar fan, though.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 30 January 2012 13:45 (fourteen years ago)
i managed to find whiney's terribly unfindable thread on it: PEDRO_o Almodo_Ovar: The Skin I'm In , but there was another one, right? i just watched it and i'm not entirely sure what i thought, but "revulsion/phobic response i didn't even know i had" is certainly right. i can't think of much else that had that kind of gnawing implicit horror for me.
― Merdeyeux, Saturday, 4 February 2012 02:37 (fourteen years ago)
I found it mostly hilarious.
― ledge, Monday, 27 February 2012 12:25 (fourteen years ago)
spanish govt saying almodovar dead
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:03 (fourteen years ago)
never mind, hoax, sorry!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:32 (fourteen years ago)
*unfollows HoaxRIPsEspanol*
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:33 (fourteen years ago)
i thought the skin I live in was great.
― akm, Friday, 27 April 2012 16:39 (fourteen years ago)
is anyone... aheh... excited about the new one
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 22 April 2013 22:39 (thirteen years ago)
mentally grouped it w/ the coens new 1, both look p bad imo
― johnny crunch, Monday, 22 April 2013 22:57 (thirteen years ago)
Stupid, gross, and lightweight, I'm So Excited is his best since Talk to Her.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 July 2013 22:52 (twelve years ago)
65yo
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-almodovar-65
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 16:33 (eleven years ago)
I'm not sure how much money I'd have paid Antonio Banderas to remain at the peak of his age and beauty in Law of Desire.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 February 2015 00:16 (eleven years ago)
i would contribute to that kickstarter
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 February 2015 00:16 (eleven years ago)
throw in lube money too
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 February 2015 00:18 (eleven years ago)
well, yeah
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 February 2015 00:21 (eleven years ago)
As long as y'all keep in mind that Almodovar writes just as floridly in Spanish.
― hungover beet poo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 June 2025 13:38 (one year ago)
Yeah, one thing I enjoyed about The Room Next Door was taking in that heightened writing in English. The odd artificiality is all part of the package. The movie didn't really get under my skin, but it was lovely to look at, and could be a conversation-starter, if you wanted it to be.
Somehow completely forgot to see both Parallel Mothers and Strange Way of Life. They just sort of disappeared after I saw the trailers.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 3 June 2025 13:47 (one year ago)
I forgot I saw Strange Way of Life.
― cryptosicko, Tuesday, 3 June 2025 14:09 (one year ago)
I'm not anywhere near an Almodovar completeist. I've only seen about five, maybe six, but I do have a fondness for Volver.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 3 June 2025 16:05 (one year ago)
Gonna give Broken Embraces another shot this weekend, seeing as how I was so damn hostile.
― boners for bombs (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 April 2026 16:34 (one month ago)