The Poetics of Surprise: Pain and Glory
[This newsletter contains spoilers for Pedro Almovódar’s Pain and Glory.]
The Artist as Twist
I don’t know if Almodóvar’s movie is autobiographical. I haven’t read anything about it since seeing it. It’s one of the rare cases where I just wanted to sit in it, languish in my feelings about it, let the layers of it slowly expand, bit by bit, filling up my b…