Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar

In the last decade, Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar has grown from critical darling of the
film circuit scene to mainstream success. Frequently comic, often deadly serious, always
visually glorious, his recent films range from the Academy Award-winning drama Talk to
Her to the 2011 horror film The Skin I Live In. Though they are ambitious and varied in style,
each is a distinctive innovation on the themes that have defined his work.

Desire Unlimited is the classic film-by-film assessment of Almodóvar's oeuvre,
now updated to include his most recent work. Still the only study of its kind in English,
it vigorously confirms its original argument that beneath Almodóvar's genius for
comedy and visual pleasure lies a filmmaker whose work deserves to be taken with the
utmost seriousness.

Author: Paul Julian Smith
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Verso
Published: 08/12/2014
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.1lbs
Size: 8.40h x 7.80w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781781681770
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