High Heels (Tacones Lejanos)
- Director: Pedro Almodóvar
- Spain, 1991
The early 90s represent a busy, transitionary period for Almodóvar. And during that period, he takes on multiple muses having apparently fallen out with Carmen Maura. His two key players are Marisa Paredes and the delectable Victoria Abril, both of whom spring up here to lead this oddball of a movie.
Abril is a career-driven newsreader whose errant actress mother (Paredes) is back in town after years away. Abril has married an older man, who happens to be an old flame of Paredes. Classic Almodóvar, really.
And the films of his transitionary period can be a bit awkward – frivolity rubs up against more serious content in a typical riot of colour. Scenes between mother and daughter are superbly acted and these tend to cover up for other, weaker or more implausable moments.
See also:
Kika
Director: Pedro Almodóvar Spain, 1993 Déjà vu abounds in Kika, a brief return to the sort of hair-brained frivolity that characterised Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown. Parallels might also ...
- Originally published: 27 Sep 2007 in Film
La Flor de mi Secreto (the Flower of my Secret)
Director: Pedro Almodóvar Spain, 1995 You get the very distinct sense when watching La Flor that Almodóvar is onto something. And so the maturity and virtuosity of his output has increased with ...
- Originally published: 15 Aug 2007 in Film
Volver
Director: Pedro Almodóvar Spain, 2006 Almodóvar ‘returns’ once more with an(other) extraordinary story about women and he coaxes a fine performance from leading lady Penélope Cruz. In Volver, the director substitutes the ...
- Originally published: 29 Aug 2006 in Film
Pepi, Luci, Bom
Director: Pedro Almodóvar Spain, 1981 This is where it all began, the first in a long line of zany, colourful and passionate tales whose collective carnival forms the prodigious output of Almodóvar. Pepi, ...
- Originally published: 21 Aug 2006 in Film
Law of Desire (La Ley del Deseo)
Director: Pedro Almodóvar Spain, 1987 There’s much to like about the performances in Law of Desire. Eusebio Poncela plays a marvellously ambivalent, sexually ambiguous film director as his insouciance gives way to ...
- Originally published: 27 Sep 2007 in Film
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