From the late 1990s to the mid-2000s, when All about My Mother (1999), Talk to Her (2002) and Volver (2006) were released, AlmodГіvar was on a critical winning streak, winning multiple awards. At last his films began to be taken seriously on the world stage. With the possible exception of Jacques Tati, whose comedies are low on dialogue, there is no more successful director of foreign-language comedies in the English-speaking world.Д«y Law of Desire (1987), he had perfected his screenwriting, and all the main characters вЂ“ an outrГ© bunch consisting of a young gay murderer, a lovelorn porn director and his caring trans sister ( Carmen Maura is brilliant here), who would be supporting roles in films by a more conservative director вЂ“ are fully drawn and sympathetic. One of his greatest achievements is making comedies (the hardest type of film to market to foreign audiences) that make people laugh around the world. AlmodГіvar burst onto the film scene as part of La Movida MadrileГ±a, a cultural explosion that took place in Spain following the death of Franco, when artists took advantage of the new freedom of expression to create vibrant, uncensored works across film, music, art and literature.ДЄlmodГіvar is by far the most famous of the filmmakers to emerge from this period. Watch Pedro AlmodГіvar films on BFI PlayerДЄlthough there are familiar tropes in Pedro AlmodГіvarвЂ™s films вЂ“ striking visuals, larger-than-life characters, women at the end of their tether, gender and sexuality issues, a celebration of LGBT lives вЂ“ itвЂ™s tricky to guide a novice through his work, as there are so many potential entry points.

The Pedro AlmodГіvar seasonВ runs at BFI Southbank from August-October 2016.

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