Death of Spanish actress Marisa Paredes, icon of Pedro Almodóvar’s films – Libération

Death of Spanish actress Marisa Paredes, icon of Pedro Almodóvar’s films – Libération
Death of Spanish actress Marisa Paredes, icon of Pedro Almodóvar’s films – Libération

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“Stiletto heels”, “All about my mother”, “Talk with her”… The actress, who enjoyed international success for her roles in the filmmaker’s feature films, is dead, the Spanish Academy announced this Tuesday, December 17 cinema.

The trace of her lipstick on the floor of a stage, splashed by her tears, while she sings (playback) the song think of mearmed with long red vamp gloves and platinum blonde hair. Dietrich and Hayworth blended together in Madrid style. When it comes to flamboyance, we couldn’t imagine a better trail than that left by Marisa Paredes in Stiletto heels (1991) by Pedro Almodóvar, of which she was one of the muses, and in recent Spanish cinema, of which she was one of the greatest actresses. She died on the night of Monday to Tuesday, December 17, following a heart problem, at the age of 78. The drama queen, mater dolorosa, was also the incarnation of a modern, post-Francoist Spanish woman, complex, ambitious but wounded. And probably more than that: Almodovar judged her “almost too classy for Spanish cinema”.

“I had a kind of rage that made me bigger”

His class is initially working: his mother, Petra, is a janitor in a building where a rich family lives, his father, Lucio, a worker in a brewery, his childhood “like a Dickensian tale” according to its terms. María Luisa Paredes Bartolomé was born in Madrid on April 3, 1946. The view from the apartment gives

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