Abstract

GRUBER, Mónica. Leyendo la realidad desde el cine. Imagen femenina y juventud en los últimos films de Pedro Almodóvar. Cuad. Cent. Estud. Diseñ. Comun., Ensayos [online]. 2019, n.77, pp.44-60. ISSN 1853-3523.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18682/cdc.v77i77.1007.

The times after General Franco’s death, in Spain, were characterized for the relaxation of sexual censorship (“el destape español”). Each and everything, for so long for bidden, would make a rampant entrance into people’s daily life, and it wouldn’t take long before being captured by the cinematographic screen. In this way, “showing” and “telling” everything that couldn’t be revealed before due to the exclusion and prohibition, became the key of many cultural creations of that moment.

The 80’s would salute “La Movida”, a designated environment for artists. Pedro Almodóvar would be part of it. He didn’t have a cinematic academic education, but he quickly became one of the referents of the young Spanish cinema. After a stage of provocative manifestation, his cinema reached a formal maturity that coincided with his international projection. In this way, he entered both, the American and Latin-American markets, and harvested nominations, awards and general acknowledgement.

He has been identified, by some authors, as the filmmaker that better represents women, considering that his films embody a highly personal image of the feminine soul. He detached himself of the mass media and Francoism stereotypes, and in his works he portrays a plural construction of the “weaker sex” and the image of youth.

Our goal, in this work, is to analyze his latest filmworks -Los abrazos rotos (2009), La piel que habito (2011) and Julieta (2016)- aiming at meditating on the women in his frames, the way in which he represents young people and their problematic, as well as the reasons behind his particular formal and aesthetic treatment. This leads us to ask ourselves if we can consider the existence of an “Almodovar›s style”.

Keywords : cinema; representation; feminine image; youth; author.

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