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In Venice, he created "Between Darkness" in 1983, a film with which the term was coined "Almodóvar girl"and five years later he won the Best Screenplay Award for "Women on the brink of a nervous breakdown », with which he would also get his first Oscar nomination.
Curiously, the first filmmaker to receive this honorary tribute to the Venetian festival was another Spanish, Luis Buñuel (1969), with whom the board of directors of the Biennale compared him to describe Manchego as "the greatest and most influential" Spanish filmmaker since the author of "Viridiana".
Recognition joins the Oscars, Bafta, Caesar and Goya, among other awards given by Almodóvar and presents itself at a pivotal moment of his career after the recent release and the successful reception of his latest film, "Dolor y Gloria".
An award for a filmmaker who has evolved a lot but who has remained true to his origins and his way of seeing cinema.
From "Pepi, Lucy and Bom" to "Pain and Glory", the intimate melodrama, the successful portrait of the woman, her undeniable ability as an actress director but always with provocation as the norm of the house.
A deep look enveloped in a halo of madness and colors, because the films of Almodóvar are intense in all areas: in their stories, in their characters, in their staging, in their music, in their colors.
The cinema of Almodóvar is recognizable from the first image, always neat and which has been perfected over the years.
Daily situations and emotions are the two elements that characterize a cinema in which women have played a leading role. For strong, fighter and fun women, another of the director's strengths, humor.
An irreverent humor, as in "Pepi, Luci, Boom and the other girls of the group" (1980); fresh and explosive, as in "What did I do to deserve this?" and "Women on the brink of nervous breakdown" (1988) or excessive, as in "Labyrinth of pbadions" (1982).
And also a black humor and sacrilege, as in "Between darkness" (1983). Who else if Almodóvar would think of making a film about the "community of the humiliated redeemed"?
After Venice, his next big festival was the Berlinale where he presented, in 1987, "The Law of Desire" and in 1990, "Tie Me!".
This one and his two following films: "Tacones lejanos" (1991) and "Kika" (1993), produced irregular results. And they marked the break with Carmen Maura, his muse until then, replaced by Victoria Abril.
But it would be in 1999, with "All about my mother", with which he would give the qualitative leap of his career and the one that would place him among the international directors with whom everyone wanted to work.
It also marked the beginning of his idyll in Cannes, where he won the Best Director Award. The Oscar and the Golden Globe also won the best non-English speaking film.
He would return to the Golden Globe in 2003 to "I spoke with herAnd I would bring back the Oscar to a better movie. A film that provoked a strong division of opinion and which in Spain was less appreciated than it was.
With "La mala educación", he opens the Cannes Film Festival in 2004, but the story does not stop. Nothing to do with the success of "Volver" (2006).
In Cannes, he won the Best Screenplay Award and all his actresses – Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo and Chus Lampreave -.
It also marked the partial recovery of his relationship with Maura, at least to end more slowly all his years of collaboration. And a return to its origins in La Mancha.
He won five Goya Awards, the same number he had won for "Women on the brink of nervous breakdown", though it is lower than the seven awards obtained by "All About My Mother".
His relationship with the Spanish Film Academy has become complicated over the years and he even left the institution after winning none of the four awards he had chosen.Bad Education ".
Nothing to do with his relations with France, where they feel a great pbadion for him and his cinema. In 1995, he was named Officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters. Two years later, he received the Legion of Honor and, in 1999, the César de Honor for his career.
Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar will receive the Golden Lion throughout his career at the 76th Venice Film Festival, to be held from August 28 to September 7, and will add to other award winning winners. David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, Tim Burton, Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen, Robert Altman or Coppola, among others. EFE
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