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''Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!'' (, , "Tie Me!") is a 1989 Spanish black romantic comedy film co-written and directed by Pedro Almodﾃｳvar, starring Victoria Abril and Antonio Banderas alongside Loles Leﾃｳn, Francisco Rabal, Julieta Serrano, Marﾃｭa Barranco, and Rossy de Palma. The plot follows a recently released psychiatric patient who kidnaps an actress in order to make her fall in love with him. He believes his destiny is to marry her and father her children. The film was highly successful with both critics and audiences in Spain. Its United States release was entangled in controversy, instrumental in the implementation by the MPAA of a new rating category, NC-17, for films of an explicit nature that were previously categorized as pornographic due to the X rating. Plot Ricky, a 23-year-old psychiatric patient, has been deemed cured and is released from a psych hospital. Until then, he has been the lover of the hospital's female director. An orphan, free, and alone, his go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Almodﾃｳvar
Pedro Almodﾃｳvar Caballero (; born 25 September 1949) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and author. His films are distinguished by Melodrama (film genre), melodrama, irreverent humour, bold colour, glossy dﾃｩcor, quotations from popular culture, and complex narratives. Desire, LGBTQ issues, passion, family, motherhood, and identity are among Almodﾃｳvar's most frequently explored subjects. As one of the most internationally successful Spanish filmmakers, Almodﾃｳvar and his films have developed a cult following. Almodﾃｳvar's career developed during ''La Movida Madrileﾃｱa'', a cultural renaissance that followed the end of Francoist Spain. His early films characterised the sense of sexual and political freedom of the period. In 1986, he established his own film production company, El Deseo, with his younger brother Agustﾃｭn Almodﾃｳvar, who has been responsible for producing all of his films since ''Law of Desire'' (1987). His breakthrough film was ''Women on the Verge of a Ner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Rabal
Francisco Rabal Valera (8 March 1926 窶 29 August 2001), popularly known as Paco Rabal, was a Spanish actor. His career spanned more than 200 film and television roles, between 1942 and 2001. He received numerous accolades both in Spain and abroad, the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actor Award and the Goya Award for Best Actor. Rabal was best known internationally for his collaborations with director Luis Buﾃｱuel, with Ronald Bergan writing "most of his other major roles he carried the heady, perverse whiff of the great surrealist director with him." He worked with many other notable directors, including Carlos Saura, Pedro Almodﾃｳvar, William Friedkin, Michelangelo Antonioni, Claude Chabrol, Luchino Visconti, and Gillo Pontecorvo. One of Spain's most-loved and acclaimed actors during his lifetime, he also was known for his commitment to human rights and other social causes. Early life Rabal was born in ﾃ“uilas, a town in the south-western part of the province of Murcia. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marﾃｭa Barranco
Marﾃｭa de los Remedios Barranco Garcﾃｭa (born 11 June 1961) better known as Marﾃｭa Barranco is a Spanish actress, who has won two Goya Awards for Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actress. Biography Marﾃｭa de los Remedios Barranco Garcﾃｭa was born on 11 June 1961 in Mﾃ｡laga. She studied medicine, but quit to study drama in her city, where she participated in various theatre groups. Later, she moved to Madrid, to debut on stage in a production of ''La venganza de Don Mendo'' (''Don Mendo's revenge''). Barranco made her film debut in 1986's ''El elegido'' (''The Chosen''). Barranco won a Goya Award for playing a transsexual prostitute in the 1990 film ''The Ages of Lulu''. She was married to filmmaker Imanol Uribe from 1982 to 2004. They have a daughter, Andrea. Filmography Television *''Sopa boba'' *''Ellas son asﾃｭ'' Accolades References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Barranco, Maria 1961 births Living people People from Fuengirola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julieta Serrano
Julieta Serrano Romero (born 2 January 1933 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is a Spanish theatre and cinema actress. Her prolific career began in the 1960s, and she has worked with directors Pedro Almodﾃｳvar and Ventura Pons. In September 2018 she was awarded by the Premio Nacional de Teatro. She won the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress for '' Dolor y gloria'' (2019) and received additional nominations for '' Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios'' (1988) and '' Cuando vuelvas a mi lado'' (1999). Selected filmography *''Secuestro en la ciudad'' (1965) *'' El juego de la oca'' (1966) .... Compaﾃｱera de ﾃ］gela *''Crﾃｳnica de nueve meses'' (1967) .... Luisa *'' Forty Degrees in the Shade'' (1967) .... Dorotea *''Laia'' (1970, Short) .... (voice) *''El hombre oculto'' (1971) .... Clara *''Tirarse al monte'' (1971) *''Mi querida seﾃｱorita'' (1972) .... Isabelita *''Laia'' (1972) .... Pauline *''Marianela'' (1972) .... La Canela *''Zumo'' (1972, Short) *''Abismo'' (1972 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agustﾃｭn Almodﾃｳvar
Agustﾃｭn Almodﾃｳvar Caballero (; born 25 May 1955) is a film producer and younger brother of filmmaker Pedro Almodﾃｳvar. He was born in Calzada de Calatrava and obtained a degree in chemistry from the Complutense University of Madrid. He began his career in film production as a messenger in Fernando Trueba's film ''Sﾃｩ infiel y no mires con quiﾃｩn''. In 1986, he and Pedro founded their own production company, El Deseo S.A. Through this company he has produced all of Pedro's films since 1986, and several French co-productions. He is a member of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain. Filmography *1986: ''Matador'', director: Pedro Almodﾃｳvar. *1987: '' La ley del deseo'', director: Pedro Almodﾃｳvar. *1988: '' Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios'', director: Pedro Almodﾃｳvar. *1989: ''ﾂ｡ﾃ》ame!'', director: Pedro Almodﾃｳvar. *1991: '' Tacones lejanos'', director: Pedro Almodﾃｳvar. *1991: ''Terra frﾃｭa'', director: Antonio Campos. *1992: '' Acciﾃｳn mutan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego Josﾃｩ Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Marﾃｭa de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santﾃｭsima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 窶 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of Assemblage (art), constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the Proto-Cubism, proto-Cubist ''Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'' (1907) and the anti-war painting ''Guernica (Picasso), Guernica'' (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War. Beginning his formal training under his father Josﾃｩ Ruiz y Blasco aged seven, Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent from a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauty And The Beast
"Beauty and the Beast" is a fairy tale written by the French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in (''The Young American and Marine Tales''). Villeneuve's lengthy version was abridged, rewritten, and published by French novelist Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in 1756 in ''Magasin des enfants'' (''Children's Collection'') to produce the most commonly retold version. Later, Andrew Lang retold the story in ''Andrew Lang's Fairy Books#The Blue Fairy Book (1889), Blue Fairy Book'', a part of the ''Fairy Book'' series, in 1889. The fairy-tale was influenced by the story of Petrus Gonsalvus as well as Ancient Greece, Ancient Latin stories such as "Cupid and Psyche" from ''The Golden Ass'', written by Apuleius, Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis in the second century AD, and "The Pig King", an Italian fairy-tale published by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in ''The Facetious Nights of Straparola'' around 1550. Variants of the tale are known across Europe.H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Kong (1933 Film)
''King Kong'' is a 1933 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code adventure film, adventure horror film, horror Monster movie, monster film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, with special effects by Willis H. O'Brien and music by Max Steiner. Produced and distributed by RKO Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, it is the first film in the King Kong (franchise), ''King Kong'' franchise and combines live action sequences with stop-motion animation using rear-screen projection. The idea for the film came when Cooper decided he wanted to make a film about a giant gorilla struggling against modern civilization. The film stars Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong (actor), Robert Armstrong, and Bruce Cabot. The film follows a giant ape dubbed King Kong, Kong who feels affection for a beautiful young woman offered to him as a sacrifice. ''King Kong'' opened in New York City on March 2, 1933, to rave reviews, with praise for its stop-motion animation and score. During its init ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psychiatric Hospital
A psychiatric hospital, also known as a mental health hospital, a behavioral health hospital, or an asylum is a specialized medical facility that focuses on the treatment of severe Mental disorder, mental disorders. These institutions cater to patients with conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, and Eating disorder, eating disorders, among others. Overview Psychiatric hospitals vary considerably in size and classification. Some specialize in short-term or outpatient therapy for low-risk patients, while others provide long-term care for individuals requiring routine assistance or a controlled environment due to their psychiatric condition. Patients may choose voluntary commitment, but those deemed to pose a significant danger to themselves or others may be subject to involuntary commitment and involuntary treatment, treatment. In general hospitals, psychiatric wards or units serve a similar purpose. Modern psychiatric hospitals have e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Law Of Desire
''The Law of Desire'' () is a 1987 Spanish comedy thriller film written and directed by Pedro Almodﾃｳvar. Starring Eusebio Poncela as Pablo, Carmen Maura as Tina and Antonio Banderas as Antonio, it was the first film Almodﾃｳvar made independently with his own production company El Deseo. The story focuses on a complex love triangle between three men. Pablo, a successful gay film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director, and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire. The relationship between Pablo and Antonio is at the core of the film; however, the story of Pablo's sister, Tina, plays a strong role in the plot. Shot in the later part of 1986, ''The Law of Desire'' was Almodﾃｳvar's first work centered on homosexual relationships. He considers '' The Law of Desire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
''Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'' () is a 1988 Spanish black comedy film written and directed by Pedro Almodﾃｳvar, starring Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas and Julieta Serrano. The plot follows actress Pepa, who, after her lover Ivﾃ｡n leaves without explanation, sets out to find the reason, and comes across an array of eccentric characters, including Ivﾃ｡n's son from a previous relationship and her best friend Candela, who has been held captive by a Shiite terrorist cell. The film brought Almodﾃｳvar to widespread international attention: it was nominated for the 1988 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and won five Goya Awards including Best Film and Best Actress in a Leading Role for Maura. It debuted at the 45th Venice International Film Festival and was released on 11 November 1988 in the United States. ''Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'' received acclaim from critics and audiences alike, and is often considered one of Almodﾃｳvar's best films. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What Have I Done To Deserve This? (film)
''What Have I Done to Deserve This?'' () is a 1984 Spanish black comedy film written and directed by Pedro Almodﾃｳvar. The title is sometimes given with an exclamation mark at the end rather than a question mark. Starring Carmen Maura, ﾃ］gel de Andrﾃｩs Lﾃｳpez, Chus Lampreave and Verﾃｳnica Forquﾃｩ, the film follows the misadventures of an overworked housewife and her dysfunctional family. Almodﾃｳvar has described ''What Have I Done'' as a homage to Italian neorealism, although this tribute also involves jokes about paedophilia, prostitution, and a Telekinesis, telekinetic child. Plot Gloria, a downtrodden housewife, lives with her husband Antonio, mother-in-law and two sons in a small, shabby and overcrowded apartment located by the Madrid motorway. Besides taking care of her home and family, Gloria also works as a cleaning lady to make ends meet and takes amphetamines to keep going. Her marriage to Antonio, a taxi driver, is on the rocks. 15 years earlier, in Germany, Antonio work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
