Marisa Paredes, Pedro Almodóvar Star, Dies at 78
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Marisa Paredes, a grand dame of Spanish cinema, died on Tuesday in Madrid from heart failure.
She was 78. While she acted in 75 movies, she will be best remembered for the five films she starred in directed by Pedro Almodóvar: “Dark Habits” (1983), “High Heels” (1991), “The Flower of My Secret” (1995), “All About My Mother” (1999) and “The Skin I Live In” (2011).
Of all these, she thought she turned in one of her career-best performances in “The Flower of My Secret,” which marks the beginning of Almodóvar’s return to his roots and world of his mother, a re-connection which continues to this day.
In “The Flower of My Secret,” Paredes played a chic romantic novelist seemingly at first a fish out of water in the village where she was born.
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