Saturday, November 25
2pm
Online Film Discussion
Presented as part of Scarecrow Academy - Women in Trouble: Great Melodrama in Film, Part 2
Pedro Almodóvar – Penélope Cruz
Almodóvar is a master at taking traditional melodrama—here, noir material straight out of
Mildred Pierce—and bending it to his own sideways purposes. This is a prime example, and more confirmation of his intense connection with actresses. 2006.
Part Two of Scarecrow Academy's "Women in Trouble: Great Melodrama in Film," a free online discussion series, continues with another nine weeks of movies that explore the way imaginative filmmakers have put women at the center of their hothouse creative universes. From traditional "women's pictures" to radical zig-zags on the idea of melodrama, these titles blend female-forward dilemmas with articulate cinematic style.
Discussions are led by National Society of Film Critics member Robert Horton, author of the Seasoned Ticket column at the Scarecrow blog and Scarecrow's "Historian-Programmer in Residence."
