ONWARDS & SIDEWAYS: THE FILMS OF PEDRO ALMODÓVAR - Artforum International

This week, the editors look back at artist Jeanne Silverthorne’s “Onwards & Sideways: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar,” from March 1990. In Artforum’s January issue, Anna Shechtman and D. A. Miller weigh in on the director’s latest, Parallel Mothers, in theaters now.“Comedy and tragedy blend to portray a surreal and perverse fable of contemporary life,” Silverthorne succinctly notes of Almodóvar’s exceptional, joyful oeuvre. In an essay that is as insightful as it is comprehensive, she leads readers from one of his earliest films, Dark Habits (1983), onward to his then most recent, Women on the

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