USA: Spanish director Pedro Almodovar opens the Los Angeles Film Festival l with his latest film "I'm So Excited"

Record ID: 221098

  • Title: USA: Spanish director Pedro Almodovar opens the Los Angeles Film Festival l with his latest film "I'm So Excited"
  • Date: 14th June 2013
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (JUNE 13, 2013) (REUTERS) ***CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** MARQUEE OF THEATER AND ZOOM OUT TO WIDE SHOT OF THEATER SHOT OF FILM'S "I'M SO EXCITED" POSTER WIDE SHOT OF PEDRO ALMODOVAR AND CAST OF FILM POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS PEDRO ALMODOVAR AND ACTRESS BLANCA SUAREZ POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS WIDE SHOT OF PEDRO ALMODOVAR AND CAST OF FI
  • Embargoed: 29th June 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Usa
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA8ZEU5MIXFOZ55GXHH34QAFCRR
  • Story Text: Pedro Almodovar's latest film "I'm So Excited!" opened the Los Angeles Film Festival on Thursday (June 13)l and the Spanish filmmaker said that the film marks a return to his roots as a satirist even as it delivers biting commentary on modern-day Spain.
    "On one side is the return to comedy, but it also has a tone that I would say, I specialized in the early years of my career, in the decade of the 80's", said the Spanish director.
    The film stars several actors who previously worked with Almodovar, including Javier Camara, Lola Duenas, Cecilia Roth and Blanca Suarez. Spanish Hollywood stars Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz also make appearances. Javier Camara and Blanca Suarez walked the red carpet with Almodovar at the film's Los Angeles red carpet screening.
    Actress Blanca Suarez described the film as good way to see things differently, despite the struggles that people from Spain are facing with the two-year recession that has left about a quarter of its workforce jobless.
    "It's a crazy film, it's a film in which I think you should sit on the chair and be just another passenger in the plane, it's a film that besides making you think about obviously a situation that we are living in Spain, makes you laugh, it makes you rethink why we take life so seriously if we can enjoy every moment. "
    Almodovar also said that the film reflects the political corruption that has ensnared the country. "If you live in Spain or if you know how the situation is, the film is a metaphor either directly about the insecurity and uncertainty in which we now live in Spain with the enormous corruption from the banks."
    The Spanish-language movie follows passengers on a flight from Spain to Mexico City after their plane experiences a serious malfunction. In the film, the pilots and flamboyantly gay flight attendants attempt to distract the passengers by providing them with alcohol and drugs, which leads to sex and dancing to the 1982 Pointer Sisters' hit song "I'm So Excited."
    "I'm So Excited!" is distributed in the United States by Sony Corp's Sony Pictures Classics and will be on limited release in U.S. cinemas on June 28.
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