Ficcional images for a real pain:

The representations of the trauma in La mala educación, by Pedro Almodóvar

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20873-rpv10n1-33

Keywords:

Leitura. Imagens. Filme. Irrepresentabilidade. Trauma.

Abstract

The film La mala educación (2004), by Pedro Almodóvar, has the film director Enrique Goded as an important character. One relevant moment of the plot is when that character, planning a cinematographic adaptation, starts reading the novel La Visita, written by his childhood friend Ignácio Rodriguez. While Goded reads, the scenes from his future movie appear in a preview of what is still a project at that moment. The objective of this text is to analyse how the arrangement of the scene promotes the analysis of the role of the film director of organizing in a movie the images that arise during his readings of works of art and facts of life. The hipotesis it that Almodóvar’s proposal is to make us think in the film directors as readers and in the films as final products of their readings lifelong.

Author Biography

Hêmille Perdigão, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

Bacharela em Letras: Estudos Literários pela Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. Mestranda em Letras: Estudos da Linguagem pela mesma universidade. Doutoranda em Letras: Estudos Literários pela Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), com apoio e financiamento da CAPES. 

References

ALMODÓVAR, Pedro; STRAUSS, Frederic. Conversas com Almodóvar. Tradução de Sandra Monteiro e João de Freire.

ISER, Wolfgang. O Ato da leitura: uma teoria do efeito estético. São Paulo: Editora 34, 1996.

FILMOGRAFIA

MÁ EDUCAÇÃO (LA MALA EDUCACIÓN). Pedro Almodóvar. El Deseo. Espanha: 2004. Brasil: Fox Films do Brasil, 2004. [DVD]. (106 minutos), colorido.

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (BONEQUINHA DE LUXO). Blake Edwards. Jurow Shepherd. Estados Unidos: 1961. Brasil: Paramount Pictures, 1961. [DVD]. (115 minutos), colorido.

CANÇÕES

MANCINI, Henri; MERCER, Johnny. Moon River. Interpretação de Audrey Hepburn. In: BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (BONEQUINHA DE LUXO). Blake Edwards. Jurow Shepherd. Estados Unidos: 1961. Brasil: Paramount Pictures, 1961. [DVD]. (115 minutos), colorido.

MANCINI, Henri; MERCER, Johnny. Moon River. Interpretação de Pedro José Sanchez Martinez. In: MÁ EDUCAÇÃO (LA MALA EDUCACIÓN). Pedro Almodóvar. El Deseo. Espanha: 2004. Brasil: Fox Films do Brasil, 2004. [DVD]. (106 minutos), colorido.

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Published

2025-08-16

How to Cite

Perdigão, H. . (2025). Ficcional images for a real pain:: The representations of the trauma in La mala educación, by Pedro Almodóvar. Perspectivas, 10(1), 135–154. https://doi.org/10.20873-rpv10n1-33

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2025): Dossiê Pensamento-Cinema 10

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Dossiê Pensamento-Cinema 10

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