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'Viva Pedro' celebrates a cinematic master
by Steve Murray

Who could guess, back in the big-haired 1980s, that Spain's self-appointed bad boy of film would one day be regarded as a cinematic master. But that's exactly what's happened, and adventurous filmgoers can savor Pedro Almodóvar's progression in the eight-film, two-week festival Viva Pedro!, starting today at Landmark's Midtown Art Cinema. Alas, the movies aren't being screened chronologically, so Almodóvar's artistic growth won't be easily traced, film-by-film. But the mix-and-match approach could create some interesting comparisons. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
The theatrical re-release of eight of celebrated auteur Pedro Almodovar's films: "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," "All About My Mother," "Talk To Her," "Flower of My Secret," "Live Flesh," "Law of Desire," "Matador" and "Bad Education."

FILM FACTS ...

Sony Pictures Classics

'Viva Pedro'

Director: Pedro Almodovar
Re-release date: August 11, 2006
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Rating: Not rated

On the web
Official movie site
View the trailer
Trailers require Quicktime

READ THE REVIEW

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"What unifies them is a generosity of spirit that encompasses all his work. Yes, it's all very gay. And transsexual. And whatever-sexual. But ultimately they are about family — biological ones, but also the nontraditional families created by characters as they wend their ways through truly outré plots. "