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Pedro Almodóvar Celebrates ‘The Room Next Door’ and 44 Years of Filmmaking in San Sebastian: ‘Just an Enormous Amount of Emotion’
Pedro Almodóvar celebrated 'The Room Next Door' and 44 years of filmmaking in San Sebastian: 'Just an enormous amount of emotion'
Almodovar noted that “Pepi, Luci, Bon” — which attracted attention for its mix of melodrama, Movida modernity and a golden rain scene plus a fart-to-perfume commercial created by its protagonist, who works at an ad agency — was a “very defective film.” But he said it was also “the beginning” for him and a career that would go on to span some 23 features. “So when I arrived at the hotel yesterday, I realised that in these 44 years since, things had changed enormously, generally in the world but also in my life. Across his trajectory of features — a library which has earned him multiple Oscars, BAFTAs and awards and honors around the world — Almodovar said that “some were better than others, but all of them are mine — they all belong to me and I think this is a privilege that, unfortunately, not all directors can say.” He added that, alongside his producer brother Agustín Almodóvar, with whom he founded the production company El Des, the two had always had the “desire to be autonomous and independent and to be the owners of what we did.”
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