Aging, Widowhood and Neighborhood in Spanish Rural Areas, a Story of Sorority in Pedro Almodóvar's Cinema
Abstract
With a feminist perspective, this work addresses the relationship between older female characters who find company and support in their peers in Pedro Almodóvar's filmography. Characters that are constituted as neighbors of the same town who need a solidarity network that articulates their social life and to whom care will be separated. Inspired by his mother and her experiences in Calzada de Calatrava, Almodóvar portrays these non-hierarchical daily networks that are very popular in rural Spanish areas. Neighborhood in this sense is not a sociocultural action by inertia, but an exercise of resistance against life, where care and social life will last, giving rise to an exercise of sorority.
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