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Not surprisingly, AlmodГіvar, who has written all of the movies he has directed, has much to say when I mention freedom to him. Sure, one reason is that his soap opera stories and confessional storytelling are specific to Spain, its post-Franco culture, its Catholic religion, its Surrealism-influenced art. Despite all this, what many may consider good reason to cross the Atlantic and make movies here, the fifty-something filmmaker is content to keep his cameras rolling on European soil.

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He has a somewhat contentious relationship with his homelandвЂ™s movie industry, and he is obsessed with classic American cinema. HeвЂ™s won two Academy Awards (Best Original Screenplay in 2003 for Talk to Her and Best Foreign Film in 2000 for All About My Mother) and has been offered numerous A-list hot property Hollywood scripts. Pedro AlmodГіvar is widely considered a contemporary master and SpainвЂ™s cinematic successor to Luis BuГ±uel.

On the phone with me from his offices in Spain-far from the Hollywood that he adores, yet avoids-he delves deep into a discussion about his writing process, his influences, and how his colorful imagination is starting to turn dark. Like Bad Education, his new, stunning, complex film noir cabaret, the writer/director is both headstrong and hypnotic, paradoxical and passionate.

With his magnificent melodramas, singular Spanish style, and peppery pompadour, one of world cinemaвЂ™s most original and recognizable auteurs is back with what may be his best film to date. This article was first published by Creative Screenwriting in 2004.