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Family secrets echo around a Spanish clan, ringing loud enough to rouse the dead, in Pedro Almodóvar's assured melodrama.

Drama 2005 121 mins

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

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Overview

If he really is "Godard with a human face – a happy face", as Pauline Kael claimed, Pedro Almodóvar is at his happiest with this fusion of Hitchcock, Cervantes, poignancy and obscenity. Its rendered credible thanks to Penélope Cruz, the steely matriarch of the type once played by Carmen Maura, who here plays the disturbed spirit.

It's a melodrama, no mistake, with men weak and marginalised. That's a bonus, giving the characters space to blossom without the usual clunking obstacles that studios so frequently impose.

Director

Pedro Almodóvar

Featuring

Penélope Cruz , Carmen Maura and Lola Dueñas

Genres

Drama

Certificate

Contains moderate sex references and violence

Country

Spain

Language

Spanish with English subtitles

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