I love Pedro Almodovar. He is a marvelous, fun, uninhibited filmmaker who has made so many great films, including "Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," "Volver," "All About My Mother," "Broken Embraces," and others.
This is an offbeat film about dysfunction like you've never seen it. OMG. Carmen Maura plays Gloria, who is addicted to No-Doz and works as a maid in Madrid. She's married to a jerk who drives a taxi and is a forger. He's crazy over a German singer, his former employer.
The couple has two sons. One is a gay hustler, and the other sells drugs.
Her mother-in-law lives with them, a woman who is constantly trying to obtain food as if it's gold and then sells it to the family.
Now they have a good chance at some big money, when Gloria's husband has a chance to forge Hitler's memoirs and have his old employer pretend to be the owner. Gloria also gives her hustler son to her dentist. You read that right.
Gloria's best friend is her neighbor, the hilarious Cristal, a call girl who wants to go to Vegas. Her other neighbor has a young child that she's awful to, at least verbally, but the child has magic powers.
I did say it was off the wall.
In the midst of all this, there is drama and poignancy of a woman doing anything she can to survive in the city during Franco's regime.
Someone said that the way Almodovar sets things up, you don't know whether to laugh or cry. But if you do both, there may just be a solution.
You have to take Almodovar as he is - wild, funny, with a message about humanity there. This film is outrageous. I loved it.
This is an offbeat film about dysfunction like you've never seen it. OMG. Carmen Maura plays Gloria, who is addicted to No-Doz and works as a maid in Madrid. She's married to a jerk who drives a taxi and is a forger. He's crazy over a German singer, his former employer.
The couple has two sons. One is a gay hustler, and the other sells drugs.
Her mother-in-law lives with them, a woman who is constantly trying to obtain food as if it's gold and then sells it to the family.
Now they have a good chance at some big money, when Gloria's husband has a chance to forge Hitler's memoirs and have his old employer pretend to be the owner. Gloria also gives her hustler son to her dentist. You read that right.
Gloria's best friend is her neighbor, the hilarious Cristal, a call girl who wants to go to Vegas. Her other neighbor has a young child that she's awful to, at least verbally, but the child has magic powers.
I did say it was off the wall.
In the midst of all this, there is drama and poignancy of a woman doing anything she can to survive in the city during Franco's regime.
Someone said that the way Almodovar sets things up, you don't know whether to laugh or cry. But if you do both, there may just be a solution.
You have to take Almodovar as he is - wild, funny, with a message about humanity there. This film is outrageous. I loved it.