Absolutely Almodóvar!
Absolutely Almodóvar!
Maximum melodrama fuses with transgressions left and right in Pedro Almodóvar’s legendary filmography filled with heightened emotion, a colorfast cast of characters, and a certain zest for life in all its complicated glory.
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ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER
PEDRO ALMODÓVAR | SPAIN | 1999 | 101 MIN | R | SPANISH, CATALAN
May 31 | 4:00 & 7:00 PM /// June 1 | 1:30 PM /// June 4 | 4:00 & 7:00 PM
A soul-shattering tragedy steers a grieving mother into a profound expedition of self-discovery, resilience, and community in Pedro Almodóvar’s Academy Award-winning dramedy.
VOLVER
PEDRO ALMODÓVAR | SPAIN | 2006 | 121 MIN | R | SPANISH
June 1 | 4:00 PM /// June 2 | 1:00, 3:45 & 6:30 PM | June 6 | 4:00 & 7:00 PM
Ghosts of the past resurface, compelling two sisters (including Oscar nominee Penélope Cruz) to confront their collective trauma and resolve long buried secrets in this profound family drama by Pedro Almodóvar.
TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN!
PEDRO ALMODÓVAR | SPAIN | 1990 | 102 MIN | NC-17 | SPANISH
June 3 | 4:00 & 7:00 PM /// June 24 | 4:00 & 7:00 PM
A delusional pursuit of love drives a recently discharged psych patient to the extreme, kidnapping an actress to cement their supposed destiny together in this transgressive, anti-rom-com breakout hit from Pedro Almodóvar.
LAW OF DESIRE
PEDRO ALMODÓVAR | SPAIN | 1987 | 102 MIN | NC-17 | SPANISH
June 8 | 4:00 PM /// June 9 | 1:00 PM /// June 12 | 4:00 & 7:00 PM
The limits of desire are tested when an obsessed and deranged new lover (Antonio Banderas) of a porn director (Eusebio Poncela) derails an upcoming production in this irresistible erotic melodrama from the masterful Pedro Almodóvar.
WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
PEDRO ALMODÓVAR | SPAIN | 1988 | 88 MIN | R | SPANISH
June 8 | 1:30 PM /// June 9 | 3:30 PM /// June 10 | 4:00 & 7:00 PM
After the abrupt end of a relationship, a woman embarks on a quest for closure, jam-packed with chaos, misadventures, and unexpected encounters in this unruly black comedy from Pedro Almodóvar.
THE SKIN I LIVE IN
PEDRO ALMODÓVAR | SPAIN | 2011 | 120 MIN | R | SPANISH
June 15 | 9:00 PM /// June 18 | 4:00 & 7:00 PM
Arguably Almodóvar’s most outrageous film, an unsettling examination of beauty and identity through the eyes of a plastic surgeon (Antonio Banderas) and his unhealthy obsession with crafting synthetic skin and the unethical lengths he will go to for a medical breakthrough.
TALK TO HER
PEDRO ALMODÓVAR | SPAIN | 2002 | 112 MIN | R | SPANISH
June 16 | 1:00 PM /// June 17 | 4:00 & 7:00 PM
Serene yet continually mysterious and provocative, TALK TO HER marks a pivotal change in Almodóvar’s filmmaker career as the director explores the love two men develop for two very different women in comas: one a bullfighter, the other a dancer.
BAD EDUCATION
PEDRO ALMODÓVAR | SPAIN | 2004 | 106 MIN | NC-17 | SPANISH, LATIN
June 22 | 1:00 & 3:30 PM /// June 23 | 3:45 PM
Combining his knack for melodrama with layered intrigue, Almodóvar presents a expressionistic, twisty tale about the unexpected reunion of a transgender drag queen and her high school lover told through a metafictional screenplay.