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
VERONICA Forque, a Spanish actress who rose to fame after starring in Pedro Almodovar's dark comedy "Kika", has been found dead Monday at her Madrid home
Magaluf Ghost Town hands us a guilty pleasure, a cinematic
ensaimada in which each layer offers a different texture. At times, Blanca tears us away from the ruckus to check in with the resort’s handful of year-round residents, for whom low-cost tourism is both a vital source of income and a monumental headache, creating a dichotomous relationship between locals and visitors convinced they’ve landed in a hedonistic paradise. This aspect of the film is grounded in reality: Blanca makes use of news footage, mobile phone videos and other technological devices to construct a fictional account as fantastical as it is entertaining. The lady from Andalusia and her African lodger are especially good value. Certainly, these scenes are the most relaxing to watch in the entire film, a project that had no difficulty finding partners and collaborators at various industry events at festivals including Abycine, Thessaloniki and Gijón.