 | All About My Mother [Read More ...]
Description: After her son is killed in an accident, Manuela (Cecilia Roth) leaves Madrid for her old haunts in Barcelona. She reconnects with an old friend, a pre-op transsexual prostitute named La Agrado (Antonia San Juan), who introduces her to Rosa (Penélope Cruz), a young nun who turns ... |
 | High Heels [Read More ...]
Review: Steamy and suspenseful to the end:Ahhhh, Victoria Abril... she is quite the actress! And as anything that Almodovar makes, this is phantastic. The subject could be really "noir", but the way it is treated, it has its black humor side, a specialty of Pedro's. A relationship betwee... |
 | 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... |
 | The Flower of My Secret [Read More ...]
Description: Pedro Alomodóvar made this misfired, rambling comedy about a romance novelist (Marisa Paredes) whose crumbling marriage has left her depressed and unable to work. At a low point, she writes a scathing indictment of her own books (which are penned under another name), with no one... |
 | Deep Crimson [Read More ...]
Review: Dark Comedy:I think the horror and perversion of the story has distracted some people from the comedic intent of the piece. The lines in the script that show how distorted the characters' thinking is are not intended to be parts of deep character studies. These people are characa... |
