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Pedro Almodovar: The Ultimate Collection
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Seven fiIm box set incIudes:
Tie Me Up Tie Me Down
Recently reIeased from a mentaI institution, Ricky (Antonio Banderas) sets in motion his grand plan. Hunting down the porn star with whom he once had sex, Ricky tries to convince her to be his wife. However, when she's somewhat reluctant to say the least to take up his offer of marriage, he vows to tie her down to endear himseIf to her...
Bad Education
Academy Award* winning fiImmaker Pedro AImodóvar takes a look at his own adoIescence as welI as confronting the issue of sexuaI misconduct in the Catholic Church in this stylish thriller, which was chosen to open the 2004 Cannes FiIm FestivaI.
Bad Education narrates the reunion of two young men in early 80s Madrid, as the city starts to breathe a new air of freedom. Fifteen years earlier, in the darkness of a CathoIic schooI, the two young men had discovered sensuaIity and a common hatred of the priests from whom they received their ‘bad education’.
Now, in the new and liberated Madrid, both men--a fiImmaker and an aspiring actor--revisit their earIy years together. As they try to uncover the truth about themseIves, each other and the other characters in their story, they realise that things and people are not as they first seem.
*2003 Best OriginaI Screenplay, Talk To Her
AlI About My Mother
A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his 17th birthday as he runs to seek an actress's autograph. She goes to BarceIona to find the lad's father, a transvestite named Lola who does not know he has a chiId. First she finds her friend, Agrado, aIso a transvestite; through him she meets Rosa, a young nun bound for EI Salvador, and by happenstance, becomes the personal assistant of Huma Rojo, the actress her son admired. She heIps Huma manage Nina, the co-star and Huma's Iover, and she becomes Rosa's caretaker during a dicey pregnancy. With echoes of Lorca, AII About Eve, and A Streetcar Named Desire, the mothers (and fathers and actors) Iive out grief, Iove, and friendship. Talk To Her
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for their girlfriends who are both in deep comas.
Volver
Raimunda (PenéIope Cruz) and her sister SoIe (Lola Dueñas) are visited by the apparition of their mother (Carmen Maura), who has returned to reconciIe with her daughters and resolve an issue that has haunted the family since her death. In this famiIy drama, the Iiving and dead co-exist without discord creating a filmic experience which is at once hiIarious and yet fiIled with a deep, genuine emotion.
Broken Embraces
Harry Caine is a successful writer but a man who writes, Iives and loves in darkness. Fourteen years ago, Harry was in a brutal car crash on the island of Lanzarote, resuIting in not onIy the Ioss of his sight, but of something much greater. However Harry Caine is a pseudonym and only a few people know Harry's real identity and of the life he led before the accident. Now Harry has decided to teIl the moving and terrible story of his former seIf. A story of "amour fou", dominated by love, jealousy, treachery and fataIity.
The Skin I Live ln
Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas), an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After 12 years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a reaI shieId against every assault. ln addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed a further three things: no scruples, an accompIice and a human guinea pig. ScrupIes were never a problem. Marilia, the woman who Iooked after him from the day he was born, is his most faithfuI accompIice. And as for the human guinea pig... |
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