Pedro Almodóvar

Signature meta takes

Readings that recur across the films — what makes a film unmistakably theirs.

• The Performed Self — in 3 of 8
  Bad Education · Talk to Her · Law of Desire
• The Abject Aesthetic — in 2 of 8
  Live Flesh · The Skin I Live In
• The Postmodern Collage — in 2 of 8
  Law of Desire · Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
• The Cinematic Chimera — in 2 of 8
  Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown · The Skin I Live In
• National Allegory — in 2 of 8
  Dark Habits · Live Flesh
• The Auteurial Signature — in 2 of 8
  Dark Habits · Talk to Her

Filmography

• Dark Habits (1983) — 5 meta takes
• Law of Desire (1987) — 4 meta takes
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) — 2 meta takes
• Live Flesh (1997) — 3 meta takes
• Talk to Her (2002) — 3 meta takes
• Bad Education (2004) — 4 meta takes
• Broken Embraces (2009) — 0 meta takes
• The Skin I Live In (2011) — 2 meta takes