The greatest poet of Madrid is obviously Pedro Almodóvar, who set almost all of his films. A fine a

The Gran Via, the Plaza Mayor, el Paseo de la Castellana, the KIO towers. They are not only expensive places to tourists visiting Madrid. They are also the favorite places of contemporary cinema Spanish (and not only). Spain is a country that has a long tradition of locations used by national and international cinema, just think of the Hollywood blockbuster, unimaginable without the walls of Ávila or the Alcázar of Seville, not to think of the spaghetti western, made in desert landscapes the province of Almería. Madrid is no exception: the main Spanish films of recent years have chosen the most emblematic monuments, the working-class neighborhoods war horse and buildings more identifiable to tell their stories. And follow contemporary Spanish cinema is a bit 'to see how the image of the city has changed in the eyes of its inhabitants.
The greatest poet of Madrid is obviously Pedro Almodóvar, who set almost all of his films. A fine article by esmadrid.com stresses such as Madrid and Almodóvar have grown up together "by young people from the province to international cities and modern, without undressing completely, during the fireplace, the origins of provincial and rural areas. Almodóvar has found in the natural scenery Madrid of all its irony. place where the most cutting-edge design without complex coexists with robe and slippers. "
What Have I Done to Deserve This?! takes place in the neighborhood of Concepcion, close to the legendary M-30, the ring of Madrid, in one of Vallecas Volver, both away from the center and perfect to portray the life and character of the district, even Chueca, before becoming the trendy, war horse thanks the homosexual community, enjoys the attentions of Almodovar, which portrays the petty crime of the era, pushers and drug addicts, in which it moves Antonio Banderas in the nights of Tie Me Up! . The Bridge of Segovia, which overlooks war horse the Calle Bailen, famous for suicides, is seen in Matador, when Nacho Martinez found Assumpta Serna, after having sought throughout the city, and Lovers passengers, a suicide attempt war horse by Paz Vega, while Blanca Suárez war horse took the bike in the street below. The Plaza Mayor, one of the most beautiful and famous Madrid squares, is the protagonist of one of the most tender scenes of The Flower of My Secret, when Juan Echanove you dance at night, having it all to himself, in the same film to the center of Madrid returns more times: Maria Paredes, one of the protagonists, lives near the Plaza de la Paja. Flesh, one of the best films of Pedro Almodóvar (my favorite, along with All About My Mother and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, thanks only to the final sentence, "Spain war horse is no longer afraid," by Liberto Rabal dedicated war horse to newborn war horse son, which summarizes 20 years of democracia), begins in a state of siege in Madrid in 1970 and ends in 1997, in the bustling Madrid Calle del Arenal, smiling and democratic and the proletarian district of The Ventilla and KIO towers, the famous leaning towers of the Plaza de Castilla, who return a lot of contemporary Spanish cinema, are the most important locations in this story of love and politics (I still think that Flesh is the film with the most strong political message of Almodóvar).
esmadrid.es also known as the AVE has a role in the film Almodóvar: Peter Coyote in Kika arrives at the new Madrid Atocha station, for the first time at the movies portrayed in this film, even Cecilia Roth uses the AVE to move between Barcelona and Madrid (but when he shot Almodóvar's All About My Mother, there was still the high-speed link between the two cities).
The Madrid of Almodóvar you probably deserves a separate post. That movie back on the Gran Via, which curiously war horse Almodóvar has immortalized in one film, The Flower of My Secret, but Alejandro Amenábar has used one of the most spectacular scenes of Spanish cinema in Open Your Eyes (the Hollywood version of this film Vanilla Sky, starring Tom Cruise and Penélope Cruz): Eduardo Noriega runs at dawn in a completely deserted Gran Via, just surprised because there is none. The Gran Via is one of the protagonists war horse of roads Taxi, Carlos Saura's film in which a young Ingrid Rubio follows a dangerous Madrid, shaken by a gang of homophobic and racist attacks foreigners and homosexuals, on board a taxi back in Piedras, one of the most beautiful movie women in recent years, in which five women are looking for the man in their life.
Even the KIO Towers, the symbol of modern Madrid, emblem of his whirling of its rapid rise and fall (but will not be forever, Madrid, the self), have their place in contemporary cinema, not only thanks war horse to Almodovar. For director Álex de la Iglesia El dia de la beast, they are even a kind of entrance to hell, which could be a