Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Steineded How sad is this?

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

hagopikagopian Pedro knows how to keep audiences from breathing. A perspicaciously made movie by an intelligent director. If you are a Pedro follower you know which part of the scene to focus on and what part of the story is important to understand.

SnoopyStyle TV actress Pepa Marcos is depressed after her boyfriend Iván disappears. The apartment is filled with animals. She accidentally sets the bed on fire. She puts sleeping pills in her gazpacho. Her distressed friend Candela shows up. Iván's son Carlos (Antonio Banderas) also shows up with girlfriend Marisa who are apartment hunting. Carlos' mother is crazy Lucía. Candela tries to jump off the balcony. She had an affair with an Arab who turned out to be a terrorist and she fears the police. It's a series of chaotic intertwining characters. It's a lot of wacky crazy chaos. It's a little hard to follow at times. It has some fun. It's got the Pedro Almodóvar style. I'm sure that I missed half of the jokes due to the language barrier. Still, it's wacky fun.

xavijimenez The title released Almodóvar name worldwide, today remains one of his most acclaimed films. After directing some of their stories underground as "Laberinto de pasiones" (1982) o "Entre tinieblas" (1983), Almodovar line again ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? (1984), a type of comedy of manners with good scripts, and full of great intrepretaciones scenes that verge on surrealism. The actress Carmen Maura and Maria Barranco are the best in the film, though we must not forget the roles to Julieta Serrano and Fernando Guillen-Cuervo. This title is highly recommended for fans who want to view and retrieve the kitsch/pop Almodovar, the most colorful and most natural to tell stories.

lastliberal With the Toronto Film Festival going on this weekend, it is appropriate that this is my second venture into Pedro Almodóvar's films, as it won the People's Choice Award at that festival in 1989.Almodóvar wrote and directed this very funny film that is a far cry from Matador. Antonio Banderas is back, this time with a Lyle Lovette haircut, as the son of a philandering husband (Fernando Guillén), who also cheats on his girlfriends.Carmen Maura (Volver0 leads a superb cast as the girlfriend that just got dumped. She is hilarious as she appears to be losing it. In comes her girlfriend (María Barranco), who is afraid of being arrested for harboring Shiite terrorists (this is 1998!). Add Banderas and his mother to the mix, and you have one laugh after another.It even had a great line reminiscent of "A woman needs a man, like a fish needs a bicycle.":Ana (Ana Leza, who was married to Banderas before Melanie Griffith came along): I'm fed up. I'm gonna get myself some quick cash, buy myself his bike and split. With a bike, who needs a man? Pepa (Carmen Maura): Learning mechanics is easier than learning male psychology. You can figure out a bike, but you can never figure out a man.It is almost misogynistic to say the movie was very funny as all the women were hysterical, but it was.