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Pedro Almodóvar Collection (Spanish, DVD, Boxed set)
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Discovery Miles 4 740
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Pedro Almodóvar Collection (Spanish, DVD, Boxed set)
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Loot Price R474
Discovery Miles 4 740
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Four films by acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. In the
supernatural-themed 'Volver' (2006), Penélope Cruz plays a Madrid
mother and housewife of a drunk husband. She and her hairdressing
sister are orphans by dint of a house fire back home in rural
LaMancha. When their sole surviving relative there - their mum's
sister - passes on, her past habit of talking to the girls' mother
as if she were still alive takes on a new and chilling
significance. In 'Talk To Her' (2002), Benigno (Javier Cámara) is a
housebound nurse who falls in love with a young dancer, Alicia
(Leonor Watling), he sees rehearsing through his window. Marco
(Darío Grandinetti) is a journalist who falls in love with a
bullfighter, Lydia (Rosario Flores), after being assigned to
interview her. When Alicia and Lydia are involved in separate
accidents which send them both into a comas, Benigno and Marco meet
at the hospital and unpredictable consequences promptly ensue. In
'All About My Mother' (1999) single mother Manuela (Cecilia Roth)
takes her seventeen-year-old son, Esteban (Eloy Azorín), to see a
stage performance of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' as a birthday
treat. Tragically, Esteban is killed when he chases after a taxi
carrying his favourite actress, Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes).
Consumed with guilt, Manuela decides to go in search of Esteban's
father, whose identity she never revealed to her son. She finds out
that he has had a sex change and is now called Lola the Pioneer,
and along the way meets various characters, including transvestite
La Agrado (Antonia San Juan) and AIDS-infected nun Sister Rosa
(Penélope Cruz), who help her with a painful journey of
self-discovery. 'Bad Education' (2004) is a semi-autobiographical
melodrama that follows the intertwining stories of two boys,
Enrique (Fele Martínez) and Ignacio (Gael Garcia Bernal), who fall
in love at an abusive Catholic school and are parted by a jealous
paedophile priest. 16 years later, Enrique, now a successful
filmmaker, is casting about for an idea for a new film when a young
cross-dressing actor, claiming to be Ignacio but known as 'Angel',
approaches him with a short story based on their schooldays
together. Enrique decides to use the story, and casts Angel in the
film's lead role, despite his discovery that Angel is not in fact
Ignacio, who died three years earlier, but his younger brother.
Enrique's film also includes scenes in which the grown-up Ignacio
tracks down the Catholic priest who abused them as boys, and these
scenes soon become mirrored by real-life events.
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- Interactive Menus
- Enhanced WS tv
- Bonus Footage
- Trailers
- Commentary: Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz (Volver Only)
- Making Of Documentary
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