Almodóvar Series

Now considered one of Contemporary World Cinema's true masters, Spain's Pedro Almodóvar shed an early fascination with filmmakers such as John Waters an Luis Buñel to forge an original, intriguing style that blends elements of ripe Sirkian melodrama with devilish Hitchcockian plot twists, all against a bright colour palette or rich Iberian reds and yellows. This short series features five of Almodóvar's most important films, all in hope of ushering in an early Spring.

SCREENINGS WEDNESDAYS AT 8PM

March 24- Law of Desire

Spain, 1987, 100 minutes. Carmen Maura and Antonio Banderas star in this hothouse tale of a film director at a romantic crossroads between two lovers while a secondary plotline deals with gender re-assignment and includes a performance of Cocteau's classic one-man play 'The Human Voice'.

March 31- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Spain 1988, 88 minutes. Maura and Banderas return in what, ultimately, was the Spanish director's international breakthrough. The accelerated storyline concerns a suicidal actress taking a different direction when her best friend's boyfriend gets in trouble with the authorities over a charge of terrorism.

April 7 - Talk to Her

Spain, 2002, 114 minutes. Perhaps the Spanish Cineaste's most unusual and compelling film, Talk to Her tells the tale of two men caught up in one-way relationships with women who cannot physically respond to the men's attentions.

April 14 - Bad Education

Spain, 2004, 104 minutes. Mexican actor Gael García Bernal (The Motorcycle Diaries) plays a dual role in this double-plotted narrative that blends issues of childhood sexual abuse with an eventual identity crisis resolved through the safety valve of artistic expression. 

April 21- Volver

Spain, 2006, 121 minutes. Almodóvar's 16th feature sports a powerhouse performance from Penelope Cruz in a story revolving around three generations of women dealing with a murder mystery, humorously tempered by a quizzical ghost story.