@ arsaib

Didn't you feel that the issue of rape (real or imagined) was handled with kid gloves, sentimentalised and kind of settled through an emotional compromise when it began to spin out of control? 

Per se, I like crossovers. For instance, I think Wong's films are essentially potboilers that are consciously overreaching the limits of the genre, with sterling results. My problem with Almodovar, perhaps, has been that I can't quite locate his films either as self-conscious soap that attempts to crossover to the other side, or "arthouse" that heavily borrows from soap! Even if I let go of the notion of location (given that we are all displaced in some way or the other), all I am left with is an extremely uneven pastiche that is unsure of its own objectives. I am willing to be convinced that there's more 

@ A

I could also go on listening to him inventing these bizarre stories about tango being exported to Argentina from Finland or saying that he overlays dialogue with music to destroy the film, and all this without batting an eyelid! His articulations are like extensions of his films. His actors have begun talking like him too! 

M