it's strange that Almodovar never comes to mind as a favorite filmmaker. such assurance! he's one of the best living directors, making grand films that do right by the European masters as international cinema slouches toward hollywood. they glow dazzlingly but darkly, and Almodovar's mastery of the medium runs so deep that he is able to translate deeply personal sensibilities into something uniquely but irresistibly entertaining, and universal in its appeal. he's almost too good, in fact; Volver occasionally tempts you to marvel at color and composition at the cost of the story. it's a great one, though, and after two films about men it's a glorious Return to the realm of the fairer sex for Pedro, whose films are also among the cinema's most blissfully feminine.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
almodovar's VOLVER (2006)
it's strange that Almodovar never comes to mind as a favorite filmmaker. such assurance! he's one of the best living directors, making grand films that do right by the European masters as international cinema slouches toward hollywood. they glow dazzlingly but darkly, and Almodovar's mastery of the medium runs so deep that he is able to translate deeply personal sensibilities into something uniquely but irresistibly entertaining, and universal in its appeal. he's almost too good, in fact; Volver occasionally tempts you to marvel at color and composition at the cost of the story. it's a great one, though, and after two films about men it's a glorious Return to the realm of the fairer sex for Pedro, whose films are also among the cinema's most blissfully feminine.
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