From the savage visionary satire of Luis Buñuel's 1960s productions to the steamy pop sensuality of Pedro Almodóvar's early work during the 1980s, Spanish cinema enjoyed one of its most vibrant and iconoclastic phases. In their attempts to chart the currents of hypocrisy and repression running through society, Bunuel, Saura, Erice and Almodóvar between them created a unique and distinctive body of work. Indecent Exposures provides the reader with an excellent introduction to ten of their films, depicting a world where bourgeois values have collapsed, and the façades of good manners, propriety and political expediency have all been cast aside. Such classics as Buñuel's Viridiana, Saura's Raise Ravens, Erice's Spiritofthe Beehive and Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown are set against their social and political backgrounds and examined in terms of the director'sown personal concerns.



Essential reading for anyone interested in film at its most culturally provocative.

Gwynne Edwards