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    Early Almodovar

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    Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive

    June 6-June 8, 2009

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    Pedro Almodovar is one of the very few filmmakers living and working abroad today who is widely recognized and popular in the United States. Over the last ten years, Almodóvar has won American audiences and accolades through a series of stylish, heartfelt and frequently outrageous melodramas, beginning with "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown." Far lesser known, however, are Almodovar's earliest feature films, cheerfully shocking and hilarious comedies that first brought him to prominence in Spain by perfectly embodying the anything-goes spirit of the movida, the explosion of anarchic cultural (and sexual) energy that erupted after Franco's death in 1975. This mini-retrospective returns to that early, rarely visited stage of Almodovar's career, tracing his progress from the deliberately rough hewn look and manic energy of "Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap" and the breakneck comic gem "Labyrinth of Passion" to the sophisticated, innuendo rich satire of "Dark Habits" and "What Have I Done to Deserve This?"


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        Harvard Film Archive

        Harvard Film Archive Cinematheque
        24 Quincy Street
        Cambridge, MA 02138

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        Tickets: Tickets are $8 General Admission, $6 seniors, non-Harvard students, Harvard faculty and staff. Harvard students free

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        June 6-June 8, 2009

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        7pm

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