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Banderas, alive with color

EDRO ALMODÓVAR’S WORLD HAS ALWAYS BEEN one of color. He’ll ask his actors to perform the most delicately complex scenes in front of wildly patterned wallpaper. The furnishings in his characters’ apartments are like visual music: hanging lamps in tangerine and turquoise, vases of van Gogh–hued flowers, couches whose fabric channels the upbeat mood of a tiki bar. He orchestrates the outdoors too, by making judicious use

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