Abstract

ALONSO FRANCH, Eduardo. Medicine, doctors and hospitals in Almodóvar's cinema. Rev Med Cine [online]. 2022, vol.18, n.1, pp.29-37.  Epub June 20, 2022. ISSN 1885-5210.  https://dx.doi.org/10.14201/rmc.27918.

The present article is a contribution to the subject of the title. In it is referred to the work of Almodóvar on the last four decades as example and paradigm of the spanich cinema, being perhaps his director with more public success & of criticism, aside of some oscars for it & his collaborators. The medecine plays in the work an important role, doctors & nurses, patients & transexuals, sexual behaviors, drugs & drugdependents, hospitals & ambulatories appears on his films. Madrid and Barcelona, also as La Coruña, are the provinces in what is developed his cinematographic narrations. The female protagonists are frecuents in his films: Marisa Paredes, Penélope Cruz, Cecilia Roth and others appears with frecuency & in repeted form. generally the age is the contemporanean to his work, with some excepctions referred to 1970. Antonio Banderas is other of his preferred actors, what appears in varied occasions as doctor.

Keywords : Pedro Almodóvar; medicine and cinema; doctors; hospitals; drug; Madrid.

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