All Almodovar: 7 films by Spanish director coming to Bangkok

It’s been a while since Bangkok sat down together for a real-theater film event. 

For seven days in November and December, seven critically acclaimed films by famed Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar will take center stage when the Spanish Film Festival opens at a Bangkok cultural venue. 

The Alliance Francaise program will show Almodovar’s movies, iconic for their use of vibrant colors and over-the-top melodrama, selected from three decades including Oscar winners and a recent Cannes’ Palme d’Or-nominated masterpiece.

The event kicks off with black 1984 comedy, What Have I Done to Deserve This?. Almodovar’s fourth film paying homage to Italian neorealism. It recounts the misadventures of an overworked Madrid housewife and her dysfunctional family.

The film for which Almodovar, now 72, is best known for outside Spain,was his critically acclaimed…