Catch up and Almodóvar

No posts for a while - have been super busy at Cannes - but I'll be back on form shortly, with a full write up on the festival coming soon.

In the meantime, I spent some time translating and subtitling Pedro Almodóvar's latest short that was apparently shot in the corner of the Broken Embraces set. As far as I know this is the only English subtitled version available, since I looked far and wide for one before deciding to do it myself.

It debuted exclusively on Canal+ Spain on Friday 13th March and is his first short film in 30 years. He has stressed that it's quite different in tone and style to the feature . Having seen the feature, I wouldn't say that's entirely true since the feature offers a film within a film and we have already seen clips from this short in the feature. Regrettably, as an Almodóvar fan I found Broken Embraces a bit tiresome, while the short actually has a lot of energy and wit. Enjoy it before it gets taken down...

La Concejala Antropofaga Pedro Almodovar English Subtitles
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Funnily enough after I made this I had a dream that I met Pedro on the way to Cannes and tried to tell him enthusiastically about having subtitled this film as I was such a fan of his work. Regrettably, in the dream, he couldn't have been less interested, leaving me heartbroken in his wake. While I was actually at Cannes, Almodovar was funnily enough one of the few stars I saw there. The poor guy looked like he'd just popped out for a coffee on this particular morning, he may even have been on his own, and he was mobbed so matter which way he turned. He looked absolutely flustered. Rarely do we see this kind of mobbing of a director, let alone a European one. As he walked by I couldn't help but think about my dream, but thought better of going to talk to him and instead did like a true tourist and took a picture instead.