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Late last summer, the novelist Sigrid Nunez reflected on the upcoming adaptation of her book “What Are You Going Through,” about life, death and companionship, by acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar. “There’s a place in the book, which is really based on something someone said to me once, that watching someone die is like falling in love,” she said in an interview with Time magazine. “That was the most striking thing besides the amazing visual miracle of that film.
But as a director, and also as a person, I’m the opposite of Bergman,” Almodóvar said of the Swedish auteur who is referenced throughout the Spanish director’s body of work, including in the 1991 melodrama “High Heels.” “That cruelty that is part of Bergman’s mastery — a cruelty that you even see him express when he talks about himself — I admire that. But I wanted just the opposite,” he said. “I wanted a movie about mortality, about two friends, but not a dark movie.
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