Pedro Almodóvar

What makes a Pedro Almodóvar film a Pedro Almodóvar film

Across 21 films, they run much more ambiguity, somewhat more melancholy and somewhat more darkness than films in general. Their films resemble each other far more than any 21 films picked at random would, which is what makes one recognisable before anybody says who directed it.

The line down the middle is the average film. A bar to the right means more of that reading than films in general, to the left less. Drawn from every film of theirs in the catalogue, not a selection.