Pedro Almodovar: “The more colors I use, the more sincere I am”
When High Heels was released in 1992, the Spanish director presented his world in Première.
This evening, France 5 will rebroadcast High heelsof Pedro Almodovar. The pitch? After years of absence, Becky returns to Madrid. She finds her daughter, Rebecca, married to one of her former lovers, Manuel. The man will very quickly want to reconnect with Becky despite his new union. In a twist of events, one night, Manuel is murdered…
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With this film released in early 1992 in cinemas, Pedro Almodovar remained on familiar ground, mixing sex, love and betrayal against a backdrop of breathtaking suspense. The Spanish director had managed to conquer the hearts of spectators and critics. At the time, he confided in his instantly recognizable style in the pages of First (No. 179).
“In fact, I don’t want to be recognizable so much as to try to recognize myself, in what I touch, he detailed to Jean-Jacques Bernard. Even though all these things are very artificial, I do them spontaneously. The more colors I use, the more sincere I am. I recognize that there is a certain narcissism there. The range of colors is what I like first, then I build the character so that it doesn’t clash with the colors.”
Throughout the interview, he also returned to his love of melodrama (“I like the exaggeration of the genre itself, where no one has the modesty to talk about their feelings”), and especially on the talent of its actresses, Marisa Paredes And Victoria Abril on your mind. “I hope that my two actresses save me from the naturalistic risk, because my film is a show of actresses. I believe that only people who like great performances will like this film.”
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