Still Life with Flowers and Fruits: Painting with Images or the Poetic Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar
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https://doi.org/10.24310/fotocinema.32.2026.21504Keywords:
Still life, symbol, Cinema and painting, Motion pictures Spain, Almodóvar PedroAbstract
This paper discusses the dialogue that the Pedro Almodóvar's cinema establishes with the visual arts, notably with the still lifes. It examines, on one side, the way in which the filmmaker appropriates the visual and plastic codes of these paintings to recreate the reality represented in the image; and, on the other side, the symbolic significance they acquire when the flowers and fruits of the still life appear in the foreground or the background of the scene. Finally, it focuses on the analysis of the film Live Flesh (1997), Julieta (2016) and The Room next Door (2024), specifically in the way the fruits are represented in the audiovisual discourse and they play a role in the construction of the narrative that accentuates the film’s poeticism.
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