 | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown [Read More ...]
Review: my introduction to the world of Pedro Almodovar......:Pedro Almodovar, an internationally and critically acclaimed Spanish director, takes eccentricity and neuroses to new heights in WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, one of his most well known films. Pepa (Carmen Maura)... |
 | "Ay, Carmela!" [Read More ...]
Review: ¡Ay,Carmela!:Even if you do not know a lot about the Spanish Civil War, you will enjoy this incredible movie about that time period in history. There is comedy, tragedy, pathos, suspense and wisdom in this story of a piece of the war as seen through the eyes of two traveling en... |
![]() | What Have I Done to Deserve This? [Read More ...]
Description: Pedro Almodóvar scored his first international hit with What Have I Done to Deserve This?, cementing his reputation as Spain's bad-boy director of darkly comedic melodramas. Many of the themes that dominate Almodóvar's later films are evident here, especially his sympathetic af... |
 | Baton Rouge [Read More ...]
Review: Not even Manolete can save this one!:I love the three great actors in it, but this movie is awful, its cast notwithstanding! The plot's premise is absurd to begin with, its developement too confusing and the final outcome completly preposterous! Thank God both Abril and Banderas... |
 | Dark Habits [Read More ...]
Description: Who but Pedro Almodóvar would make a movie in which a nightclub singer named Yolanda, whose boyfriend has died from a heroin overdose, hides from the police in a nunnery--only to discover that the nuns have more perverse lifestyles than her own? The nuns of Dark Habits use dr... |
 | How to Be a Woman and Not Die in the Attempt [Read More ...]
Review: Femisogyny strikes again:This is a great little Spanish movie about family, gender, and sexual tension ("Sex relieves tension. Love produces it") in modern Spain. Carmen Maura plays a nuanced role as a devoted housewife and reporter in love with her sweet and apparently honest bu... |
 | Extramuros [Read More ...]
Review: Self Inrpisonment and suffering:Extramuros is a captivating movie that depicts the imprisonment of women in a social-financial and religious class system. This servitude for religion, purity and society become a compelling story that presents the boundaries of a human being. ... |
