Dark Habits
— A breezy, inconsequential tale of nuns with nowhere to run.”
- Director: Pedro Almodóvar
- Spain, 1983
This colourful film, about a nightclub singer on the run who holes up in a convent only to find the nuns are worse sinners than her, is the first of Almodóvar’s oeuvre made with full production.
As if on cue, the set design is suddenly marvellous, the story detail considerably richer than previous efforts and Carmen Maura and Julieta Serrano run a tight ship with the script.
Ultimately, Dark Habits is a rather blunt instrument used to poke fun at religion. The dissipated sisters are comical and their lifestyles shocking, but the involving humanity of the director’s later work is still barely hinted at.
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