After the drama “La piel que habito” was nominated for 16 Goya Awards, at Golden Globes and the British Independent Film Awards and has won the BAFTA trophy in the category “The Best Movie in a language other than English”, by Pedro Almodóvar was confirmed that the public from Europe and the United States still relishes his controversial movie, whose main themes are murder, rape, homosexuality, sex change operations, transgender, passion, jealousy, carnal desire, infidelity and madness, which is why the Spanish director is already thinking about the next project that he will address and will be a comedy entitled “the Brief Lovers”.
The information taken by the journalists from Screen Daily was confirmed in a broadcast by a radio station from Spain by the producer Agustin Almodovar, the brother of Pedro Almodóvar, which helped at the develop of the script “La piel que habito” and said that will be a smart comedy, with very spicy dialogues and many elements that will generate hilarity.
The protagonist of “The Brief Lovers” will be Javier Cámara, with which Pedro Almodovar has also worked in 2002 at the drama “Habla con ella” and in 2004 at the crime drama “La Mala Educación”, but you may know him from the movies “The Secret Life of Words”, “Alatriste” and “Paris, je t’aime”.
The filming is scheduled to begin in summer of 2012, including the fact that Pedro Almodóvar will venture outside his comfort zone with “The Brief Lovers” for many years that have passed since the filmmaker has not chosen a project that clearly to fit with the comedy genre, the latest being perhaps “Kika” from 1993.
