When Almodóvar was eight years old, the family sent him to study at a religious boarding school in the city of Cáceres, Extremadura, in western Spain, with the hope that he might someday become a priest.
Kada mu je bilo osam godina obitelj ga šalje u vjersku školu u grad Cáceres (pokrajina Ekstremadura na zapadu zemlje, uz nadu da će jednog dana možda postati svećenik.