![]() ![]() He’s won two Academy Awards (Best Original Screenplay in 2003 for Talk to Her and Best Foreign Film in 2000 for All About My Mother) and has been offered numerous A-list hot property Hollywood scripts. Pedro Almodóvar is widely considered a contemporary master and Spain’s cinematic successor to Luis Buñuel. On the phone with me from his offices in Spain-far from the Hollywood that he adores, yet avoids-he delves deep into a discussion about his writing process, his influences, and how his colorful imagination is starting to turn dark. ![]() Like Bad Education, his new, stunning, complex film noir cabaret, the writer/director is both headstrong and hypnotic, paradoxical and passionate. With his magnificent melodramas, singular Spanish style, and peppery pompadour, one of world cinema’s most original and recognizable auteurs is back with what may be his best film to date. This article was first published by Creative Screenwriting in 2004. ![]()
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