About this episode

The episode discusses Almodovar's early work, focusing on the film 'Labyrinth of Passion' and its outrageous themes.

Jake Lenburg (Lennyandthejetts on IG) returns...for the final (?) time this season. We talk about the early Almodovar output, LABYRINTH OF PASSION! This is an outrageous screwball sex comedy with incest and shit jokes. It's Wonderful. Trans Lifeline - https://translifeline.org/ Trans Equality - https://transequality.org/ Trevor Project - https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ Spencer - https://linktr.ee/vadahuff Logo - Andrew Bargeron - https://linktr.ee/gimetzco Music - James Fell

People in this episode

Host: Spencer

Guest: Jake Lenburg

Topics covered

• Almodovar
• film analysis
• comedy
• incest
• screwball
• 1980s cinema

Keywords

• Almodovar
• Labyrinth of Passion
• sex comedy
• 1982
• film discussion
• incest
• screwball comedy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Trans Lifeline, Trans Equality, Trevor Project

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