One of the first Pedro Almóvar films that won Award for best director and best actress: Julieta Serrano in the 1987 Fantasporto, the film focuses on the former bullfighter Diego Montes, who teaches young hopefuls the art of bullfighting and above all the supreme luck: that of killing. Thus, death is Montes' obsession and in his retreat, the girls replace the bulls. It starts with Angel (Antonio Banderas) a shy, confused young man who has to find his way between his stiff-upper-lip mother (Julieta Serrano) , who is a member of Opus Dei, and the bullfighting lessons of the sinister Diego Montes (Nacho Martinez) , who has had to retire because of an injury. One evening Angel, tormented by the need to prove his manhood, tries to rape the pretty neighbor Eva (Eva Cobo), at the same time Diego Montes' girlfriend, in the open street. However, and he faints when he sees the scratch the young woman has sustained in her fall. The next day he reports himself to the police.
After a period of learning that extends during the first half of the Eighties, the screenwriter and director Almodóvar makes one of his first well-known melodramas based on a sufficiently elaborate script, written in collaboration for the first time in his career with the novelist Jesús Ferrero. After a brilliant beginning and some attractive scenes, as is usual in Pedro, there comes a moment when the film becomes overly complicated and trivialized to become too cumbersome, even despite its attractiveness . The script is uneven with a confusing and muddy plot in which a helpless young apprentice in bullfighting: Antonio Banderas is responsible for a crime and in which a series of peculiar characters are involved, highlighting the model: Eva Cobo, a police commissioner: Eusebio Poncela, Julieta Serrano as tyrannical mother, a psychologist: Carmen Maura, a lawyer: Assumpta Serna and a retired bullfighter: Nacho Martinez . The existing tensions during filming and especially in post-production between producer Andrés Vicente Gómez and the director, make Pedro Almodóvar make the wise decision to create with his brother Agustin the production company ¨EL Deseo S. A.¨ to become his own producer and start a dazzling international career.
This Almodovar's fifth film portraying a criminal intrigue, his previous pictures were Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón (1980), Laberinto de pasiones (1982), Entre tinieblas (1983), ¡Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto! (1984), mostly in low budgets, and containing many imperfections so its style and particularities were gradually developed and perfected. Subsequently his style to be compellingly purified. Developing his own trademaks , as he often uses symbolism and metaphorical techniques to portray circular story lines . In in his later films Almodóvar directs throughout with splendid zip and he usually portrays strong female characters and transsexuals . In 1987, he and his brother Agustín Almodóvar established their own production company: El Deseo, S. A. The "Almodóvar phenomenon" has reached all over the world, making his films very popular in many countries. Pedro subsequently made successes such as Labyrinth of passions , Law of desire , Women Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown , Bad education , All about my mother , Talk to her , Broken embraces , The Skin I Live In and many others . Rating Matador (1986) : 6/10 . The film will appeal to Pedro Almódovar enthusiasts.
After a period of learning that extends during the first half of the Eighties, the screenwriter and director Almodóvar makes one of his first well-known melodramas based on a sufficiently elaborate script, written in collaboration for the first time in his career with the novelist Jesús Ferrero. After a brilliant beginning and some attractive scenes, as is usual in Pedro, there comes a moment when the film becomes overly complicated and trivialized to become too cumbersome, even despite its attractiveness . The script is uneven with a confusing and muddy plot in which a helpless young apprentice in bullfighting: Antonio Banderas is responsible for a crime and in which a series of peculiar characters are involved, highlighting the model: Eva Cobo, a police commissioner: Eusebio Poncela, Julieta Serrano as tyrannical mother, a psychologist: Carmen Maura, a lawyer: Assumpta Serna and a retired bullfighter: Nacho Martinez . The existing tensions during filming and especially in post-production between producer Andrés Vicente Gómez and the director, make Pedro Almodóvar make the wise decision to create with his brother Agustin the production company ¨EL Deseo S. A.¨ to become his own producer and start a dazzling international career.
This Almodovar's fifth film portraying a criminal intrigue, his previous pictures were Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón (1980), Laberinto de pasiones (1982), Entre tinieblas (1983), ¡Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto! (1984), mostly in low budgets, and containing many imperfections so its style and particularities were gradually developed and perfected. Subsequently his style to be compellingly purified. Developing his own trademaks , as he often uses symbolism and metaphorical techniques to portray circular story lines . In in his later films Almodóvar directs throughout with splendid zip and he usually portrays strong female characters and transsexuals . In 1987, he and his brother Agustín Almodóvar established their own production company: El Deseo, S. A. The "Almodóvar phenomenon" has reached all over the world, making his films very popular in many countries. Pedro subsequently made successes such as Labyrinth of passions , Law of desire , Women Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown , Bad education , All about my mother , Talk to her , Broken embraces , The Skin I Live In and many others . Rating Matador (1986) : 6/10 . The film will appeal to Pedro Almódovar enthusiasts.