WHAT IT'S ABOUT:
Salvador Mallo is a highly acclaimed film director who, in advanced middle age, is suffering from debilitating bodily pain and a depressing realisation that his best days may well be behind him. When he reconnects with a passionate actor with whom he had a falling out decades ago, Salvador finds a new, albeit perhaps temporary lease on life, even as he struggles to come to terms with his youth as a poor child and the only son of an absent father and tough-as-nails mother.
WHAT WE THOUGHT:
Pedro Almodovar isn’t just the very rare “foreign language” film director whose films actually get released to cinemas in this country, he is also known as one of the very best ever Spanish-language directors whose best films tend to be passionate, provocative, sexually charged, often more than slightly deranged, and almost never less than deeply personal.