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The Pleasure of Cinema: A Conversation with Pedro Almodóvar

Director in Person
Free Admission

Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar, celebrated for his brilliant plays with melodrama, camp, kitsch and for his self-conscious and politically inflected control of cinematic form, will be speaking at Harvard University on Tuesday, October 12 at 6 p.m. at the Science Center, Lecture Hall B. The event is free and open to the public. The director will give an overview of his work, with special reference to his cinematic and cultural models and to questions of aesthetics and politics. He will then take questions from the audience.

Harvard University Science Center, Lecture Hall B
1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Free and open to the public. Doors will open at 5:30 pm
Seats are on a first-come, first-serve basis

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