Always Almodovar...
We watched "Carne trémula" which I got for Miguel's birthday last month. He didn't really see the point of owning more videos... (This time I failed as gift-giver, but at least I got him Cultura Profética's new cd on time - we didn't even have to fly to Puerto Rico this time to hang with them in order to obtain it... They are famous enough to have their stuff sold on Amazon - yay!) although I had been pretty proud of myself, also getting a very strange pastiche flick sponsored by Scorcese about the Cuban revolution called "I am Cuba." Very strange and I definitely want to see it again, in varying states of sobriety to see exactly where it is that I can understand the narrative language... But the thing is, every time I see an Almodovar, I feel something different. That, I think, is one of the big problems with dear old Pedro. Mmmm. No, I am not very coherent tonight at all. Let's see. How can I explain this. Every new movie that comes out seems to be his "best" even though every movie seems to be a variation on a theme. I can't complain. It is THE theme... but, for example "Todo sobre mi madre" was phenomenal and quite a bit more serious than the whimsical "Antonio Banderas as a sexy young thang" movies, but then "Hable con ella" was so truly bizarre, and at the same time so satisfying... There is always the sensation of the psychotic voyeur, chasing, chasing and then the desire (no it isn't an accident that his film company is El Deseo), the citation of other films... El amante menguante... that to me was the ultimate Almodovarian manifesto-a man wanting to shrink so small and crawl back inside his lover's vagina as if she were also his mother... his ultimate desire. Here Penelope Cruz played the pregnant prostitute, and for good measure Javier Bardem the cripple... And I really felt like this was the best one, which annoyed me to no end. Why do we have to claim a "best"... Now from what my fav boy Antonio says "La mala educación" is actually the worst one yet, and that it lacks coherence... And yet, others sing its praises... I will have to see for myself. But of course, I will have to see it just to drool over a certain Gael García...
Sorry folks... bad writing at its best, I will try harder next time:)
Sorry folks... bad writing at its best, I will try harder next time:)
posted by ilana at 1:43 a.m.
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> Now from what my fav boy Antonio says "La mala
> educación" is actually the worst one yet, and that it
> lacks coherence...
Antonio must have been distracted or on drugs. In fact, this is the first Almodovar WITH a coherent plot. It might not be realistic, but it's an allegory, so who cares. "The Shining" was even more unlikely, but very coherent.
Yeah... well, as I said, I haven't seen it yet, due to wallet mishap. Don't get me started because I am still bitter and have a huge number of financial traces to go chasing about... I even had to change my f-ing checking account. Don't worry... I'll write about it when I do see it (and not on drugs), but in the mean time I discovered a video store that has cheap rentals... so I will be mostly in, this week watching what we rented, oh yeah, and hanging out in cafés while pretending to do work... no, actually doing work;)
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