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PEDRO ALMODOVAR COLLECTION
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Victoria Abril,
Alejandro Angulo,
Eloy Azorin,
Antonio Banderas,
Javier Bardem,
Pilar Bardem,
Maria Barranco,
Gael Garcia Bernal,
Francisco Boira,
Daniel Gimenez Cacho,
Javier Camara,
Javier Cámara,
Tony Canto,
Penelope Cruz,
Penélope Cruz,
Fernando Fernan-Gomez,
Juan Fernandez,
Alberto Ferreiro,
Raul Garcia Forneiro,
Mariola Fuentes,
Fernando Guilleen,
Lluis Homar,
Roberto Hoyas,
Antonio San Juan,
Loles Leon,
Francisco Maestre,
Fele Martinez,
Petra Martinez,
Angela Molina,
Sarita Montiel,
Francesca Neri,
Marissa Paredes,
Candela Pena,
Nacho Perez,
Francisco Rabal,
Liberto Rabal,
Cecilia Roth,
Jose Sancho,
Elena Santonja,
Rosa Maria Sarda,
Julieta Serrano,
Leonor Watling
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| Format: |
DVD |
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| Cat No: |
P9159DVD |
| EAN: |
5060002833315 |
| Distributor: |
20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT. |
| Regions: |
2 (UK, Europe, Japan, South Africa and Middle East) |
| Rel. date: |
27 December, 2004 |
| Certificate: |
15 |
| Running Time: |
420 mins |
| Language: |
Spanish |
| Description: |
Four films by acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar. In the black comedy 'Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!' (1990), Marina (Victoria Abril) is a soft-porn actress with two men in her life: the wheelchair-bound director of her films, who is obsessed with her and leaves endless messages on her answering machine; and the love-struck Ricky (Antonio Banderas), who has recently been released from a psychiatric hospital and is determined to father her children. In an attempt to gain her love, Ricky attacks her in her flat, holds her hostage and ties her to the bed until she becomes a willing participant. 'Live Flesh' (1997) is an adaptation of the novel by Ruth Rendell. Victor Plaza (Liberto Rabal) goes to meet drug-addicted diplomat's daughter Elena (Francesca Neri) after losing his virginity to her. She barely remembers anything about the past, however, and attempts to shoot him. Two cops, David (Javier Bardem) and Sancho (Jose Sancho), arrive at the scene and David is shot, leaving him paralysed. Victor finds himself imprisoned for the shooting, although he is innocent. In jail, he learns that David, now a paralympics champion, has married Elena, and vows revenge upon his release. In 'All About My Mother' (1999), single mother Manuela (Cecilia Roth) takes her seventeen-year-old son, Esteban (Eloy Azorin), to see a stage performance of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' as a birthday treat. Tragically, Esteban is killed when he chases after a taxi carrying his favourite actress, Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes). Consumed with guilt, Manuela decides to go in search of Esteban's father, whose identity she never revealed to her son. She finds out that he has had a sex change and is now called Lola the Pioneer, and along the way meets various characters, including transvestite La Agrado (Antonia San Juan) and AIDS-infected nun Sister Rosa (Penelope Cruz), who help her with a painful journey of self-discovery. 'Bad Education' (2004) is a semi-autobiographical melodrama follows the intertwining stories of two boys, Enrique (Fele Martinez) and Ignacio (Gael Garcia Bernal), who fall in love at an abusive Catholic school and are parted by a jealous paedophile priest. 16 years later, Enrique, now a successful filmmaker, is casting about for an idea for a new film when a young cross-dressing actor, claiming to be Ignacio but known as 'Angel', approaches him with a short story based on their schooldays together. Enrique decides to use the story, and casts Angel in the film's lead role, despite his discovery that Angel is not in fact Ignacio, who died three years earlier shortly after completing the story, but his younger brother. Enrique's film also includes scenes in which the grown-up Ignacio tracks down the Catholic priest who abused them as boys, and these scenes soon become mirrored by real-life events. Almodovar moves away from his trademark quirky comedy with this dark and brooding drama, using a complex 'film-within-a-film' structure to create a noir-like sense of mystery and blurred identity, and to explore the relationship between fantasy and reality. |
| Features: |
Interactive Menus |
| Directors: |
Pedro Almodovar,
Pedro Almodóvar
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| Genre: |
Feature
Foreign
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| No. of pieces |
5 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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