A symbolic image, one that Pedro Almodóvar handles with such mastery that few others can match. Years ago Elsa shot a film in exactly the room where she is being treated now. In this year, director Raúl begins telling the story of the director Elsa, whom he is working on in the present. With “Bitter Feast” the Spanish elder statesman Pedro Almodóvar, now 76, tells another autobiographical tale. Director: Pedro Almodóvar.