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The Last Dream
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A mischievous and genre-spanning story collection from legendary film director Pedro Almodóvar’Almodóvar’s mind seems to be reporting from another world to illuminate, clarify, and challenge our own’ KAVEH AKBAR’Akin to a Spanish Angela Carter’ TELEGRAPHThe Last Dream brings together twelve unpublished stories from Almodóvar’s personal archive, written between the late sixties and the present day. Delivering a tantalising glimpse into Almodóvar’s world, this wildly inventive collection reflects his most intimate obsessions, as well as his daring evolution as an artist.Ranging from ‘The Last Dream’ – a beautiful chronicle of the death of Almodóvar’s mother – to a love story between Jesus and Barabbas;, a cult film director out in search of painkillers on a bank holiday weekend, the original story behind the film Bad Education, and a gothic tale of a repentant vampire, these stories delight and surprise.The Last Dream is a celebration of the relationship between life and art, fiction and reality from an artist unafraid to write about our most intimate moments.Translated by Frank Wynne*Readers love THE LAST DREAM*‘Dive into a world where vibrant characters and deep emotions come to life on the page’‘An intriguing blend of the personal, thoughts, his remarkable professional film career and more from the superb Pedro Almodóvar’‘Colourful characters and situations, a little madness. Warmth, humour and strangeness’‘Highly recommended’
Additional information
| Weight | 0.351 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.3 × 14.2 × 22.3 cm |
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| Format | Hardback |
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| Pages | 240 |
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| Year Published | 2024-9-26 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1787304353 |
| About The Author | Pedro Almodóvar (Author) Pedro Almodóvar is a world-renowned, multi-award-winning film director and screenwriter whose many films include Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother and Talk to Her. Almodóvar has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and five Goya Awards. |
| Review Quote | A heady mix of factual and fictitious, befitting of one of cinema’s most imaginative storytellers… [the collection is] bracing, the book serving as an outlet for something Almodóvar can’t express from behind a camera… The Last Dream has its pleasures – some of them lurid, some rather poignant |
| Other text | 'The Life and Death of Miguel'…could have been written by Roberto Bolaño at his height… It’s fascinating that in fiction Almodóvar prefers to inhabit [a] historical and often fantastical universe. To judge by The Last Dream, he’s akin to a Spanish Angela Carter, or a cousin to the undersung Argentinian genius Silvina Ocampo. What his films and stories have in common is a vivid melodrama; a preoccupation with motherhood, outsiders and religion |
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