Pedro Almodovar is one of the world's most highly regarded directors (Volver, Talk to Her, All About My Mother, etc.), and one with a very distinct style. What is the style? It wouldn't do justice to it to try to describe it, but it's something you know when you see it. There's a look to Almodovar's films that is unmistakable.
Almodovar was probably a known quantity in the U.S. before his 1988 film Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, but that was the one that opened my eyes to the internationally acclaimed Spanish screenwriter and director. Since then his movies have regularly enjoyed distribution in the United States, which is plainly the goal of any filmmaker.
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