Núria Triana Toribio, Professor of Hispanic Studies in the Department of Modern Languages, will be presenting a talk for the Liverpool Film Seminar series at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) on Monday 6 March 2017.
Núria’s talk will be titled ‘Guilt, Belatedly: Almodóvar in the 80s and the 80s in Almodóva’. In the talk she will focus on Pedro Almodóvar, the Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer who achieved international recognition for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), All About My Mother (1999) and Volver (2006), and who released a new film, Julieta, last year. She will explore the singularity of Almodóvar’s cinema by tracing its roots to a Spanish Punk scene in the 1980s, whose ferment generated photographers, artists, and musicians especially – but only one filmmaker who survived. Núria will consider his snapshot of the 1980s, as portrayed in Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Average Girls (1980) and Labyrinth of Passions (1982) and address how those sunny chronicles of the Spanish Punk/Movida moment sit uneasily next to the stormy 1980s constructed in Julieta.
For more details about the event, please see the LJMU webpage here:
www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/events/film-seminar-toribio