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3/4
what use is melodrama with no substance?
suladf - wrote on 01/09/2012
What is it about Pedro Almodovar's films? All of them full of melodrama, highly saturated colours, and a complex non-linear storyline that slowly unravels before the audiences shocked eyes. This should make to be a an interesting, unforgettable story that lingers. Right? Yeah I suppose, but although all the trademark Almodovar themes there (LGBT themes, gorgeous, gorgeous cast members, betrayal, jealously blood-ties) it ceases to be any more poignant that the rest of his films.
With the exception of the beautiful cinematography, and wonderful performance from Banderas who manages to capture both terrifying and magical, menacing and fragile this seems like a rehash of things that he has done before. Almodovar relies on his past efforts to create a good, a very good movie but one that …
Rating of
3/4
The Skin I Live In
Allison - wrote on 10/14/2011
See full review on: http://cinemabecomesher.blogspot.com/2011/08/la-piel-que-habitothe-skin-i-live-in.html
The most interesting thing about Almodóvar's new film is how polarizing the reviews I read on IMDB are. It's his best film. His worst film. It's horror. It's definitely not horror. The only thing most people can agree on is the fluidity of the camerawork by Jose Luis Alcaine. In one scene, Marilia (Marisa Paredes) runs through the room at a sideways angle that confirms the urgency of the scene, in addition to being innovative and beautiful.
Perhaps this is Almodóvar's most unusual film. Oddly enough, the film takes place in the not so distant future (2012) and the not so far off past (six years ago). The comparisons to Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face are not …
