{"id":12512,"date":"2022-09-14T13:38:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T17:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=12512"},"modified":"2023-12-12T05:50:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T10:50:45","slug":"pedro-almodovar-pulls-out-of-his-first-english-language-feature-film-a-manual-for-cleaning-women-with-cate-blanchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=12512","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Almod\u00f3var Pulls Out of His First English-Language Feature Film &#8220;A Manual for Cleaning Women&#8221; with Cate Blanchett"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Photo by Nobuhiro Hosoki\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>Acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almod\u00f3var has announced that he\u2019s withdrawing from further work on what would have been his first English-language feature, <em><strong>A Manual for Cleaning Women<\/strong><\/em>, starring Cate Blanchett.<\/p>\r\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/09\/dirty-films-new-republic-move-forward-on-a-manual-for-cleaning-women-sans-pedro-almodovar-1235115757\/\"><em>Deadline<\/em><\/a>, Almod\u00f3var made his decision after he realized he was not ready to continue with the project, though in 2020 he had done an English-language short, <em><strong>The Human Voice<\/strong><\/em>, featuring Tilda Swinton.<br \/><br \/>In explaining the motivation for his move, Almod\u00f3var was quoted as saying, \u201cIt has been a very painful decision for me.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> online pharmacy <a href=\"https:\/\/placervilledentist.com\/wp-content\/themes\/twentytwentytwo\/inc\/php\/furosemide.html\">furosemide over the counter<\/a> with best prices today in the USA <\/div>\n<br> I have dreamt of working with Cate for such a long time.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> online pharmacy <a href=\"https:\/\/placervilledentist.com\/wp-content\/themes\/twentytwentytwo\/inc\/php\/zovirax.html\">zovirax over the counter<\/a> with best prices today in the USA <\/div>\n<br> Dirty Films has been so generous with me this whole time and I was blinded by excitement, but unfortunately, I no longer feel able to fully realize this film.\u201d<br \/><br \/><em><strong>A Manual for Cleaning Women<\/strong> <\/em>is being produced by Blanchett in tandem with Andrew Upton and Coco Francini of Dirty Films, who issued a statement in support of Almod\u00f3var\u2019s decision while vowing to continue the project. \u201cWe have the utmost respect for Pedro and his extraordinary body of work,\u201d they said, \u201cand while the stars may not have aligned this time, we hope to collaborate with Pedro and El Deseo on another project in the future.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> online pharmacy <a href=\"https:\/\/placervilledentist.com\/wp-content\/themes\/twentytwentytwo\/inc\/php\/temovate.html\">temovate over the counter<\/a> with best prices today in the USA <\/div>\n<br> Dirty Films\u2019 passion for \u2018A Manual for Cleaning Women\u2019 and Lucia Berlin\u2019s unique and searing voice \u2013 full of danger, joyousness and loss \u2013 has not dimmed, and we are excited to continue this project with our partners at New Republic.\u201d<br \/><br \/>It&#8217;s not yet clear who will be stepping into Almod\u00f3var\u2019s shoes as director, however.\u00a0The film is based on Lucia Berlin\u2019s 2016 short-story collection, <em>A Manual for Cleaning Women<\/em>, which included 43 stories that examines the lives of women in a wide variety of occupations.<br \/><br \/>Pedro Almod\u00f3var won an Oscar for best foreign-language film for <em><strong>All About My Mother<\/strong><\/em> (1999). He won another one for best original screenplay for <strong><em>Talk To Her<\/em><\/strong> (2002). The director, who turns 73 on September 25, became a noted filmmaker during <em>La Movida Madrile\u00f1a<\/em>, the cultural renaissance that emerged in Madrid after the repressive Franco regime.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out more of Edward&#8217;s articles<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Nobuhiro Hosoki\u00a0 Acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almod\u00f3var has announced that he\u2019s withdrawing from further work on what would have been his first English-language feature, A Manual for Cleaning Women, starring Cate Blanchett. According to Deadline, Almod\u00f3var made his decision after he realized he was not ready to continue with the project, though in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[11802,3787,11803,6377,2775],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pedro Almod\u00f3var Pulls Out of His First English-Language Feature Film &quot;A Manual for Cleaning Women&quot; with Cate Blanchett | Cinema Daily US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=12512\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pedro Almod\u00f3var Pulls Out of His First English-Language Feature Film &quot;A Manual for Cleaning Women&quot; with Cate Blanchett | Cinema Daily US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Photo by Nobuhiro Hosoki\u00a0 Acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almod\u00f3var has announced that he\u2019s withdrawing from further work on what would have been his first English-language feature, A Manual for Cleaning Women, starring Cate Blanchett. 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