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" All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the personages. In fact, I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person singular. "

Pedro Almodovar

Myself

Movies

I Am

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See

Film

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Memory

Looking

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Women

Directing

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Impossible

Work

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