Pedro Almodovar

Pedro Almodóvar (Spain, b. 1951) single-handedlyrepresents the revival of Spanish cinema as partof the cultural flowering of the Movida Madrileñain the 1980s. New York was first to hail the unbridledimagination of this provocative director, whose films are filled with transsexuals, neurotics(Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,1988) and even d