All in the family

Spanish movie director Pedro Almodóvar thinks Pope Benedict XVI has an outdated notion of the family. “Why doesn’t the Pope take a walk outside the Vatican and look at what a family means today?” Almodóvar told Germany’s Die Zeit. “For more than 20 years, I have made films in which a family is a group […]

Spanish movie director Pedro Almodóvar thinks Pope Benedict XVI has an outdated notion of the family.

“Why doesn’t the Pope take a walk outside the Vatican and look at what a family means today?” Almodóvar told Germany’s Die Zeit. “For more than 20 years, I have made films in which a family is a group of people, at whose center is a small being everyone looks after … no matter whether the group is made up of separated parents, transvestites, transsexuals or nuns suffering from AIDS.”


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