[Bad Education]
Pedro Almodóvar
Quintessentially Almodóvar :
- Almodóvar has reached a level of visual refinement where he can be both bold and elegant (with carefully cultivated subtlety) at the same time.
- Life continues in his films in it's primal innocence - the bold, primal colours, the bold, primal characters and their bold, primal sense of humour.
- Overall construction is so sensual that it appeals to the senses like the lush sounds of some orchestra (as opposed to fertile/thriving/characterized by abundance/prosperous/plentiful)
- Full of ironical and whimsical double entendres.
- Surreal humor (having the intense irrational reality of a dream)
- Pulp narrative, usually complex like unusual interconnection between characters, films within a film etc. Very definition of 'pulp' in the truest sense of the word: lurid (shocking/melodramatic/sensational/causing revulsion) - subject matter with often shocking subjects portrayed as non-shocking.
- One is, still, not repulsed by the characters commiting lurid crimes. One doesn't see them as victims either, but accepts them as they are.