Almodóvar daringly and exquisitely evoke serious meditation and complex emotions on love, obsession, loneliness and fate with dazzling materials, accompanied by sublimely beautiful cinematography from Aguirresarobe and choreography from Pina Bausch; "Shrinking Lover"
"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence." --Thomas Wolfe,