iW Video | Reverse Shot Talkies: Pedro Almodóvar
by indieWIRE (November 19, 2009)
Director Pedro Almodóvar.
“A movie is something like – even something shot and edited and frozen there – I think it’s like a person…you know more about that person with time,” observed director Pedro Almodóvar in a recent video interview with Reverse Shot’s Eric Hynes. “That you know more about that person with time. It’s a bizarre thing for a director to say. I used to see movies a lot of times – not continuously – but I like to go back to them. The impression is not that I understand them better, but that the experience is always different.” Almodóvar spoke with Hynes about his latest film, “Broken Embraces,” which follows a blind writer (Lluís Homar) revisiting series of events that led up to a car crash that took both his vision and his lover, Lena (Almodóvar regular Penelope Cruz). The film debuted at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, and opens in limited release this Friday via Sony Pictures Classics. “Life is very imperfect, reality is very imperfect,” concluded Almodóvar in the video, featured below, “but the cinema helps a little just to make it less imperfect.”
Reverse Shot Talkies is a series of unconventional, site-specific video interviews with filmmakers, programmers, critics, and more. Informal, playful, and always revealing, Talkies are not just antidotes to the traditional Q&A format but also unique short films in their own right. -To read a transcript of the entire interview, continue to page 2- |
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