So August has arrived, the countdown to the UK release (on the 26th) of La piel que habito / The Skin I Live In starts, and it’s Almodóvar Month here at Nobody Knows Anybody.
I haven’t managed to do quite what I wanted (in a previous post I said that I hoped to write about my ten favourite Almodóvar films), but I think I’ll actually manage to say something (however short) about all seventeen films and will write something about the eighteenth once I get to see it.
Here’s what will be appearing on the blog throughout August:
- I’ve written a paragraph on each of the films and those will be posted up in chronological order with basic credits and a synopsis.
- There will be an Almodóvar ‘book list’ in the style of the Spanish cinema ones I have posted previously.
- There will be a series of longer posts looking at specific films –including High Heels, Live Flesh, Talk to Her, and Volver. These won't be going up in chronological order because I'm still writing the High Heels one.
- There may also be some other things –for example, I’d quite like to write something about his film posters, but it depends on how much time I have.
Anyway, hopefully there’ll be something for everyone (providing they like the films), and please feel free to chip in via the comments section with your thoughts about the various films –have I underestimated one? Or over-praised another?
