Almodovar: A Self-Portrait in Seven Films

This book is not just a biography of the great director; it is something more: a true portrait of Pedro Almodovar, pieced together by the scholar, writer, and journalist James Miller in the films of the maestro ("Bad Education", "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown", "Volver", etc.). Being a distinctive product of the counterculture of Madrid's movida and the surrealist movement of interwar France, Almodovar has never been shy about following his wildest fantasies, creating vibrant worlds and telling shocking, frightening, amusing, yet no less life-affirming stories. What is the true Pedro Almodovar like, the creator who tests the fragile boundary between fiction and reality, between self-perception and the harshness of the surrounding world?