Top 5 Pedro Almodovar films.

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The man's quite prolific, what do you think are his best five films. Here's my top 5:

1) Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
2) Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
3) All About My Mother
4) Live Flesh
5) What Have I Done to Deserve This?

I do love Almodovar's eighties films for their hysterical quality, but I think he reached true maturity only after Law of Desire. Having said that, I was a bit disappointed with Talk to Her, not because of the "controversial" subject matter, but because it felt uneven, even for a Pedro Almodovar film.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sorry, I tried but I just can't slim it down to five.

― Tag (Tag), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i loved talk to her, all about my mother
and live flesh

i think the early stuff was all a bit too eurotrash, fun but forgettable

and then he painted himself into a real corner with all the kitsch until i stopped watching. i didnt watch live flesh til it was on the telly last xmas. but after that i was straight down the curzon soho for talk to her.

― arthur woodlouse (arthur woodlouse), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i have never seen even one of his films. i think i may avoid them all just to be perverse, but if I crack, which is the best to see first?

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

1. All About My Mother
2. Talk to Her
3. Live Flesh
4. What Have I Done to Deserve This?
5. um, I've only seen four

I'd say that Talk to Her is the least uneven film of his I've seen, though I admit it's a little forced.

― b.R.A.d. (Brad), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, maybe your right, I guess it just felt uneven compared to his previous work.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 15 May 2003 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

only seen 2 and 3 from the tuomas' list.

''i think the early stuff was all a bit too eurotrash, fun but forgettable''

if 2 counts as eurotrash then fine bcz that's what i like abt it.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 17 May 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i remember a few years ago womeon on the verge was on tv, and i looked forward to it from the second i saw the five-star review in the radio times. as it turned out the film was bloody awful! like a two-hour episode of that 70's show. all about my mother is better if too sentimental, but i suppose if you're inclined against sentimentality you're inclined against almodovar.

― matthew james (matthew james), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I quite like the Eurotrash ones - "Labyrinth of Passion" in particular. People dismiss his early work but "Matador" is a pretty early one which wasn't nearly as frivolous as you might think.

― Tag (Tag), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

as it turned out the film was bloody awful! like a two-hour episode of that 70's show.

And this is bad in what way?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

My top five is:
1. High Heels, adore Victoria Abril and Marisa Paredes
2. All About my Mother
3. Live Flesh
4. Kika
5. Tie me Up, Tie me Down

― stefan wikenfalk, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

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