Believe me, not all Spanish people relate to Almodovar's portraits of our society, actually, I'd say not even the majority of people do. (Just my opinion).
I'm not a big fan of his work, although I like the guy, he's quite witty and definetely a great "salesman"; but I only like 'Mujeres....'(Women on the verge....),'¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?, and 'Atame'.
I did not like 'Todo sobre mi madre', and I recently saw his last one 'Hable con ella' and would only recommend it to his many die-hard fans.
To me, he doesn't represent the generality of us. I compare him to Woody Allen; would you say his characters represent North American society as a whole?
The two of them usually work with their same group of "buddies", and "talk" about issues that concern or even obsess them, which is only natural; the difference to me is, we(Spanish, or Europeans) watch a lot of American films by many diverse directors so we're less likely to think that the average American is similar to what Woody shows us, whereas foreigners get to watch a limited sample of our movies, and the image that Almodovar gives from movie to movie varies very little addressing only a very specific part of this society.
Also, I think that in both cases, and in general, their comedies are way better than the "serious" films, which are plain boring and a little pretentious. (But, I'll always like Woody better, his humour is much more intelligent
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Saludos,
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