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Conception Neigbourhood and Almodóvar Universe

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Concepción Neighborhood and Almódovar's Universe

Let’s imagine the production director going over the list of characters. They shoot. What have I done to deserve this? It’s the eighties and the M-30 road marks the division between two Madrids. In the border Pedro Almodóvar set a human landscape that we could call hyperbolic-realist: housewives addicted to tranquilizers, prostitute neighbors, telekinesic girls, pedophiles (memorable line: “In the beginning it was fun, but I’m too young to be tied down”) and Germanophile taxi drivers. Who gives more? All of them move between three immense blocks located next to the M-30, a modern hive which is an example of the development of the city in the last century.


I recommend you walk through the neighborhood: it will give you a good idea of daily life in the city, far from the more centric locations, that the film director has also used, like for example the Bar Villa Rosa, where Miguel Bosé, with the voice of Luz Casal, acted dressed as a woman in High Heels, or the emblematic Bar Chicote from Broken Embraces, located in Gran Vía and a common place for stars in the fifties and sixties.

Among my favorite film locations are: in the first place, the Conde Duque street, near number nine, where Carmen Maura acted in the famous sequence with the water hose, a loyal representation of the summer in Madrid. Also, the visit to this street is the perfect excuse to stroll along a nice neighborhood full of bars like Limón.

In the second place, in the Duque de Alba street, number three, is the Wooster, a bar with terrace and good portions of food, where Labyrinth of Passion began, with an illustrative gag from Funny MacNamara and Imanol Arias of those times marked by a benign explosion of liberty called Movida that became a world reference (this line shows it: “No money no car, no girl, no vice, no mascara. I’m going mad!”).

Its name at that time was La Bobia. It was, and still is, a good place to have something before or after visiting El Rastro, and from there jumping to the southern area of Madrid (you can take the subway, Antón Martín stop, where Santiago Segura as Torrente, parked Tony Leblac, his father in this fiction, so he would beg for alms).
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