Pedro Almodóvar is the most famous Spanish film director of our time, a cult figure, winner of an Oscar and the Cannes Golden Bough. He is one of those rare directors who, by updating the cinematic language, enjoys wide audience love, as evidenced by such hits as “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown”, “Flower of My Secret”, “Living Flesh”, “All About My Mother”, “ Bad Education”, “The Return”, etc. Mixing all imaginable genres and semi-parodic kitsch, Almodóvar thickly seasoned his signature brew with unabashed melodrama. He is a recognized master of female images: he shares the suffering of his heroines, admires their cunning, and fetishizes the objects around them. This book is not just a collection of interviews, but a series of conversations that Almodóvar had for several years with the prominent French film critic Frederic Strauss. p>