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Backdrops and Miniatures: The Other Madrid Built by Almodóvar
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Gorostiza, Jorge |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | “Visit Almodóvar's Madrid. If there were an Oscar for best location, Pedro Almodóvar's Madrid would be a firm favorite. Now film fans can tour the director's hot spot.” This is the start of a Web page but, even though it sounds odd, it is not the advertisement of a travel agency, but of a language school that offers its participants “visit Almodóvar's most famous movie locations and experience the city he portrays. You will participate in a tour of the director's favorite haunts: viewing three of his movies from different periods and partaking in a subsequent discussion of the film with the expert.” Evidently Madrid, as mentioned in the previously cited ad, is the city the director portrays and much has written about this symbiosis between the director and the capital of Spain. Before continuing it is necessary to state something evident; when a director chooses to frame a part of a city, he is dissecting it while at the same time constructing a different reality. For example, the Barrio de la Concepción in ¡Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? (1984) becomes an interpretation the director makes of this suburb. A fundamental interpretation for this same city, as Giuliana Bruno states: |
| Starting Page | 35 |
| Ending Page | 48 |
| Page Count | 14 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://journals.tdl.org/ciney/index.php/ciney/article/download/68/74 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
