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Spain's most acclaimed director since Luis Buñuel, the
openly gay Pedro
Almodóvar burst onto post-Franco Spain with gleefully
campy, over-the-top comedies that celebrated sexuality in all
its forms. Taking a cue from the overripe melodramas of Douglas
Sirk, Almodóvar crafted postmodern, brightly colored comedies
that grappled with love, lust, death, desire, and obsession. Early
films played like mad, reckless farces, caroming about on pure
energy and nerve, but Almodóvar began bringing a serious
undertone to his comedies with Law of Desire and Women on the
Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, his best films and both of which
starred his longtime leading lady, Carmen Maura. Almodóvar
courted controversy with his NC-17-rated Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!,
starring a then-unknown Antonio Banderas, and has since moved
into a more serious, mature period.
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