The film is a semi-autobiographical story of an aging film director, played by long-time Almodovar collaborator Antonio Banderas, who won the best actor honor at this year's Cannes festival for the role.
teems with all the things we relish about him: the importance of women , shameless nostalgia and celebration of sexuality are all present and, of course, in its overstated way, the film is unfailingly great to look at."All About My Motherin 2002, winning the latter award. In 2016, the director'swas picked by the Spanish Academy to compete at the Oscars. but it did not make the Academy Award short list.
Almodovar has directed 21 films and he was recently awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for directors at the Venice International Film Festival. Spain has been nominated for what has so far been known as the best foreign-language film Oscar 19 times and has won it four times.
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