30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
A fresh perspective on the life and films of Pedro Almodóvar
The essential challenge of film books is that their ideal reader has already acquired a certain expertise — and perhaps even a collection of volumes — on the genre or filmmaker in question. Very few people require more than one comprehensive guide to a director's work, which leads to an increasingly narrow focus. James Miller's 'The Passion of Pedro Almodóvar' bucks that trend. By providing a close analysis of seven of Almodóvar's 'more or less autobiographical' movies, Miller promises to 'present an unusual sort of 'self-portrait' of the artist' and to explore the extent to which his mature work 'is engaged in … an implicitly philosophical quest for self-knowledge.'
