Pedro Almodóvar? More Like Pedro Autopilot

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Since losing his sight in an accident, Mateo Blanco has eschewed directing in favour of writing scripts under the pseudonym Harry Caine. Thank goodness for Antxón Gómez, whose credit should be not Art Director, but rather Knight in Shining Armour, for it is he who sweeps in and saves the day with canvases (multiple cocked guns, a pair of apples plucked straight from Eden) that inject a kitsch thrill into the film's middlebrow cosiness.

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Pedro Almodóvar? More Like Pedro Autopilot

Pedro Almodóvar? More like Pedro Autopilot

The once searingly original Spanish auteur stoops to self-parody

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dir: Pedro Almodóvar

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