Originally titled General Erections, the film features a party scene in which Almodóvar himself organizes and participates in a measure-the-erections competition. His first feature film, Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del monton (in English, Pepi, Luci, Bom, and Other Girls on the Heap), released in 1980, became The Rocky Horror Picture Show of Spain. An out gay artist, Almodóvar’s stock-in-trade is sexual subversion.
Pedro Almodóvar is Spain’s preeminent filmmaker and one of the heroes of the European struggle against Hollywood hegemony.
