Pedro Almodóvar

"Mroczne lata edukacji szkolnej, bardzo osobiste wspomnienie o matce, rozważania na temat własnej twórczości - to wszystko autor zamyka w niewielkich formach fabularnych, dzięki którym możemy odkrywać go na nowo, szukać kolejnych tropów dotyczących jego życia i dzieł. Teksty składające się na ten tom Almodóvar pisał do szuflady przez blisko pięćdziesiąt lat. Fikcja przenika się tu z rzeczywistością, humor - z powagą, racjonalność...

Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become a novelist while Martha became a war reporter. Separated by the circumstances of life and after years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

"Este libro es lo más parecido a una autobiografía fragmentada. [...] El lector acabará obteniendo la máxima información de mí como cineasta, como fabulador y el modo en que mi vida hace que una cosa y las otras se mezclen". Así define el autor este volumen, en una brillante introducción que sirve también de puesta en perspectiva: los doce relatos que lo componen abarcan varias épocas, desde finales de la década de los sesenta hasta la...

The central focus in Volver is a family of women: mother and grandmother Irene, her daughters Raimunda and Sole, and Raimunda's 14-year-old daughter Paula. Irene is dead: She died with the girls' father in a fire many years ago in their birth village in La Mancha. Raimunda lives in Madrid with Paula and her shiftless husband, who is malevolent, irrelevant, or absent. Separated Sole runs an unlicensed beauty parlor in her apartment. Their old aunt,...

Explores the relationships of a gay movie director, who has a transsexual brother (now a woman living with her daughter) and two lovers, one of whom murders the other and takes the director's sister (brother) hostage in order to see the director one more time.

Vulnerable in the face of a reality that shifts and suddenly turns unpredictable, the characters cross the thin line that divides civilization and barbarism. A lover's betrayal, a return to the repressed past and the violence woven into everyday encounters drive the characters to madness as they cede to the undeniable pleasure of losing control.

The lives of five people are intertwined by romance, friendship and rivalry. Victor has fallen for a woman, Elena. Elena wants nothing to do with Victor and she calls the cops when he shows up at her apartment. The two cops that show up are David and Sancho. Sancho is a chronic, abusive drunk and believes his wife, Clara may be having an affair with his partner, David.

Pepa is a successful actress, doing voice-dubbing and detergent commercials. She lives in a beautiful apartment in the heart of Madrid, with her lover and fellow actor Ivan. He has deserted her without warning, and may have gone back to his wife Lucia, who has been in a mental institution for twenty years. Pepa's best friend, Candela has an equally serious problem: her boyfriend has been arrested as a terrorist, and she needs to hide from the police....

"Ingrid y Martha fueron muy amigas en su juventud. Trabajaban en la misma revista, pero Ingrid acabó convirtiéndose en novelista de autoficción y Martha en reportera de guerra. Las circunstancias de la vida las separaron y, después de muchos años sin tener contacto, vuelven a encontrarse en Nueva York, en una situación límite, aunque extrañamente dulce. Martha, que ha sido una madre muy imperfecta y se ha ido distanciando de su hija, sufre...