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By B 0 8 T H O M A S
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Impressions of a Spanish film star
on h e r f i r s t g l i m p s e of
Hollywood:
"I am a little afraid of this city. It is very special. I think it is
too much for me. Too much. It is
very big, lot of cars. I drive but"
I don't want to drive (here). It isimpossible to live here without
car. Impossible to work."
It's hard to imagine Carmen
Maura afraid of anything. Her
fiery temperament is one of the
many delights of "Women on
t h e Verge of a N e r v o u s
Breakdown," Spain's entry as
foreign language film in the
Academy Award sweepstakes.
The film, the director Pedro
Almodovar and Maura have elicited rave reviews from American
critics, and the moviegoing
public has responded accordingly. The movie has grossed $4.6
million, which is big money for a
subtitled film these days.
"Women on the Verge" has
been compared to the great
screwball comedies of the late
1930s Hollywood. Maura says
she is not surprised that Americans like the film.
"When I started to work with
Pedro 10 years ago, we had a
situation and a relationship that
was very special," she recalled.
"I said to him, 'Oh, Pedro, don't
worry, because in time the
Americans will understand you.'
"I am very proud of Pedro
Almodovar. He is very genuine.
His sense of humor is very
American sometimes, and my
sense of humor also. The
Spanish have a lot of sense of
humor. The directors in Spain
don't normally make the kinds
of films like Pedro makes. They
make films about the war, about
the poor — no colors, no rich
persons. Pedro is different."
The Almodovar-Maura partnership goes back to when he
was working for the telephone
company in Madrid and she was
a mostly unemployed actress.
• • It is the
most successful
f i l m in the history
of the Spanish
film. T h e people
see the f i l m three
times, four times,
and they g o with
t h e whole f a m i l y . •
Carmen
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Maura
you must get away from the
Super-8 and go to the big film."
So we make the first film during
two years on the weekends,
without money, without makeup, without nothing. It was a
very, very funny movie."
It was called "Pepi, Luci, Bom
and Other Girls Like Mom," a
title that* set the tone for
Almodovar's film career. Born in
a small village of La Mancha in
1951, he had come to Madrid at
the age of 172 worked 'at various
humdrum jobs while indulging in
t h e b u r g e o n i n g world of
underground literature, pop
music and movies. At one time
he played in a rock band called
Almodovar and McNarnara.
Carmen Maura was born to a
conservative Madrid family in
1945. After a Catholic education,
she worked in an art gallery
while seeking work in theater
productions. She met Pedro
when she was starring in Satre's
"Dirty Hands," and he had a
one-line role. After their first
movie, she became a TV talkshow hostess on the popular
"Esta Noche" ("Tonight") program.
Almodovar first attracted attention outside of Spain with his
third film, "Dark Habits," in
which Maura played a bongo-
playing nun. In his other films,
she portrayed a harried housewife ("What Have I Done to
Deserve This?"), a psychiatrist
("Matador") and a flamboyant
transsexual ("Law of Desire").
The director's reputation continued to grow, then he exploded
with "Women on the Verge of a
Nervous Breakdown" which
opened last season's New York
Film Festival.
"It is the first time that a
Spanish film has made as much
money as an American film,"
Maura said. "In this case we
have the money like 'Rambo,'
like Spielberg. It is the most
successful film in the history of
the Spanish film. The people see
the film three times, four times,
and they go with the whole family. They repeat, they laugh a lot.
The film is in four cinemas one
year. It has a long life in Spain.
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Spanish actress C a r m e n M a u r a protrays Pepa M a r c o s in this scene
from " W o m e n on the V e r g e of a Nervous B r e a k d o w n , " directed by
Pedro A l m o d o v a r .
The dark beauty, who speaks in
b u r s t s of slightly flawed
English, remarked:
"The first moment when I
meet Pedro, I am a little actress
and he is very young. He had no
money; he had nothing. He
works with the Telefonica and
with little parts in the theater.
He work with Super-8 (movies)
and he make jokes every day.
"He has an imagination really,
really special. He began to speak
to me, and I began to speak to
him about life, about women,
about men. I say to him, 'Pedro,
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