The story of Pedro Almodóvar

Brut America

Pedro Almodóvar, one of the most celebrated feminist filmmakers in modern cinema, spoke to Brut about the strong women who raised him. This is the acclaimed Spanish filmmaker's story.

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00:00One, two, three, four!

00:03I asked who it was when he left.

00:05They said, Pedro Almodóvar has made one film,

00:08but he won't make any more.

00:10HEROÏNES

00:29Thinking about these women from my childhood,

00:33for me, they were real heroines.

00:36They were the influence of my mother.

00:40I've always been surrounded by women

00:46who have really educated me.

00:48They were very strong women.

00:54Why do you want me to go to a seminar?

00:56Because there's no other way to study for the poor.

01:06HEROÏNES

01:18Sometimes, when I think about my youth,

01:21about the 1980s,

01:23I'd like to relive

01:27the same excitement I had during those years.

01:32HEROÏNES

01:38Sometimes, even working and living under a dictatorship,

01:44what is very important is that you give yourself that kind of freedom.

01:48You can express it, for example, if you write, if you paint,

01:54if you make something by your own.

01:57HEROÏNES

02:04At the end of the 1970s, in Madrid,

02:06you were singing with javelins, barresillas, heels and needles.

02:11You were singing pop music.

02:13There was a bit of a sulphurous side, a bit provocative,

02:17for the good Madrid society.

02:20But he didn't go to the Ritz. He went to the Rocola.

02:23Of course, but still.

02:25Did you see him? Did you hear him sing at the time?

02:28How was he?

02:29He was great.

02:30He was great?

02:32Like everything else.

02:33He sang like a shoe, but it didn't matter.

02:37He sang like a shoe?

02:38Yes.

02:39Very bad?

02:40Not very good.

02:41Really?

02:42No, but it didn't matter.

02:44Why?

02:44Because he wasn't there to give a concert.

02:49What was he there for?

02:51He was there to tell, to dress, to express himself,

02:54to say, to do, to say, but that's it.

02:58No, I never acted seriously.

03:04And the audience that came to see me

03:07didn't come to see a singer.

03:10So it was something, I would say, distracting.

03:14And it was a very good experience.

03:17But I never took myself seriously as a singer.

03:24In the Franconian period, I couldn't have made any films.

03:30And obviously, for the nostalgic people of this system,

03:34I am a reincarnation of the devil.

03:37We met there in the 80s.

03:40And he came with a red briefcase.

03:43He sat in the group, there were some who knew him.

03:47It was very funny, not really a film.

03:50In the group, there were some who knew him.

03:53It was very funny, I don't remember what he said,

03:55but I remember laughing with him.

03:57He was very fast, very ingenious.

03:59And when he left, he looked at me and said,

04:01you have a very romantic face,

04:03and you should make a film at some point.

04:06And well, I asked who he was when he left.

04:08They told me, his name is Pedro Almodóvar,

04:10he has made a film, but he won't make any more films.

04:12THE FEMININE SOUL

04:17I don't understand why the rest of the male directors and writers

04:23have that inability to enter the feminine soul.

04:28Because women are not so difficult to understand.

04:31In fact, you are not difficult at all to understand.

04:35That is, women show themselves more than men.

04:40Men are much more hermetic.

04:42I think it is a defect of men

04:45who do not know how to write about women.

04:48I mean, over time, I have become an exception.

05:01I owe him a lot because, therefore,

05:05it has not only been a cinematographic learning,

05:08but really a life learning.

05:11What has been happening to him for many years.

05:41I am very happy and proud to be a friend

05:44and to be able to work with him. I really love him.

06:05I have a question about the film.

06:09I am very ashamed.

06:11I have to say that I suppose that 90% of the Spaniards

06:15are absolutely against the support,

06:21the help and support of Mr. Bush in that war.

06:24And for us, the Spaniards, and I mean the Americans,

06:29it is one of the most blatantly anti-democratic acts

06:34that I remember since democracy existed in Spain.

06:38It is one of the most blatantly anti-democratic acts

06:41that I remember since democracy existed in Spain.

07:08Beyond if you belong to the LGTB that I am or not is it was an injustice and we

07:37they tell can be not tell the story are really our real heroes that will save

07:52many lives

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