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Darkly comic this is an exploration of the plight of the modern working mother stuck between friends, family, feuds and financial disaster. The themes effecting Almodovar's bizarre family are as varied as the city of Madrid itself - paedophilia, drugs, infidelity, boredom, loyalty, murder, family values and the promise of salvation that village life can offer to name but a few. As for the friends and foes that surround the family helping build these films, well, they include: a childless slovenly couple, he a failed writer, she a kleptomaniac; a psychotherapist; a delightful prostitute with a heart of gold and a brain of gauze; a bitchy bourgeois neighbour with a child. By now you should be getting the picture. It's funny, its very human and it deals with some of its issues in a proper continental manner i.e. without any shame. This is certainly the best early Almodovar I've seen and, if you want it to, can leave you with a lot of questions and a few answers to mull over. And as for all those other films it made me think of well you’ll have to make your own list, here’s some of my more bizarre ones: Brazil, Carrie, Happiness, Christiane F and The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover. If that’s a strange enough mix for you then you have to watch this film and, while your doing that, I’m going to go watch the rest of the library’s Almodovar collection. 8/10 (9 of you’re in the right mood) C is for Cheeky Black Comedy Cabron 29/04/04
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