Pedro Almodóvar – författare

Anyone who s ever watched an Almodovar film remembers the bold, colorful graphics that announce the movie, successfully setting the conceptual tone before the first scene even begins. Celebrated for films that tell a story through a vivid use of color, pattern, and design, he immerses viewers in the milieu with stylized sets and costumes that conjure a glamorous, retro, and slightly madcap world. Created by the filmmaker s longtime creative director, this is an ode to the artistic designs of the many films in the director s extensive oeuvre. These pages hold his hand-picked curation of photographs, illustrations, artwork, and typography that make up the look and feel of every Almodovar creation. With stills and promotional posters from well-known films such as All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Volver, and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, as well as eye-catching pieces from lesser-known works such as Julieta and The Human Voice, the volume delivers a thorough and comprehensive look at Almodovar s rich aesthetic. An event for film lovers and filmmakers around the world, this extraordinary 600-page publication, signed by Almodovar, illustrates the intersection of art and film and how graphic language appeals to an international audience. The collection of posters and graphics reflect the various languages and cultures these films have been released in, making the book a must-have for collectors.

An intimate and mischievous story collection, bursting with desire and playful humour, from legendary film director Pedro Almodóvar'A major literary talent’ KAVEH AKBAR, author of Martyr!'Akin to a Spanish Angela Carter' TELEGRAPHThe Last Dream brings together twelve stories from legendary film director Pedro Almodóvar’s personal archive. Delivering a tantalising glimpse into Almodóvar’s world, together they reflect his most intimate obsessions, as well as his daring evolution as an artist.Ranging from a beautiful chronicle of the death of Almodóvar’s mother in ‘The Last Dream’, to a love story between Jesus and Barabbas, a cult film director out in search of painkillers on a bank holiday weekend, the original story behind the film Bad Education, and a gothic tale of a repentant vampire, these mischievous stories delight and surprise.‘A heady mix of factual and fictitious, befitting of one of cinema’s most imaginative storytellers’ OBSERVER‘Keenly observed and spiritually sumptuous’ EMPIRETranslated by Frank Wynne*Readers love THE LAST DREAM*‘Dive into a world where vibrant characters and deep emotions come to life on the page’‘An intriguing blend of the personal, thoughts, his remarkable professional film career and more from the superb Pedro Almodóvar'‘Colourful characters and situations, a little madness. Warmth, humour and strangeness'

A mischievous and genre-spanning story collection from legendary film director Pedro Almodóvar'Almodóvar’s mind seems to be reporting from another world to illuminate, clarify, and challenge our own’ KAVEH AKBAR'Akin to a Spanish Angela Carter' TELEGRAPHThe Last Dream brings together twelve unpublished stories from Almodóvar’s personal archive, written between the late sixties and the present day. Delivering a tantalising glimpse into Almodóvar’s world, this wildly inventive collection reflects his most intimate obsessions, as well as his daring evolution as an artist.Ranging from ‘The Last Dream’ - a beautiful chronicle of the death of Almodóvar’s mother - to a love story between Jesus and Barabbas;, a cult film director out in search of painkillers on a bank holiday weekend, the original story behind the film Bad Education, and a gothic tale of a repentant vampire, these stories delight and surprise.The Last Dream is a celebration of the relationship between life and art, fiction and reality from an artist unafraid to write about our most intimate moments.Translated by Frank Wynne*Readers love THE LAST DREAM*‘Dive into a world where vibrant characters and deep emotions come to life on the page’‘An intriguing blend of the personal, thoughts, his remarkable professional film career and more from the superb Pedro Almodóvar'‘Colourful characters and situations, a little madness. Warmth, humour and strangeness'‘Highly recommended’