Oscar Directors: Almodóvar–“Bitter Christmas,” Women-Driven Spanish Melodrama

“Bitter Christmas” explores how life and fiction are inseparably linked, sometimes painfully so.”

Almodovar: What Makes Pedro Run? (Gay/Queer Gaze)

Almodovar’s mode is satiric, generous to a fault, and free of judgment and moralizing. Openly gay, he has created characters whose sexuality is fluid, be they heterosexuals, homosexuals, transsexuals, or bisexuals.