Pedro Almodovar is feeling the effects of age

Just like the protagonist of his latest film, Pedro Almodovar admits that the weight of years gone by have had an effect on him, writes Helen Barlow

IT’S hard to imagine Pedro Almodovar growing old, yet it’s something the flamboyant 66- year-old Spaniard is grappling with. Looking back at one of my many old articles about the director when 20 years ago he was in Cannes for All About My Mother, he was talking about going off to a party with his fellow king of kitch (or rather queen of kitsch) Elton John.

Of course when Almodovar made his early films, Labyrinth of Passion and Dark Habits, he was in a post-Franco delirium, living a wild life not unlike some of his characters.