Pepi Luci Bom
1980
Almodovar's first take on life in Madrid. Pepi Luci and Bom are three girls living in the city during the punk era surrounded by sex, drugs and rock and roll... Read more
| Starring | Cecilia Roth, Assumpta Serna, Carmen Maura, Felix Rotaeta |
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| Director | Pedro Almodovar |
| Genres | World Cinema |
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Pepi Luci Bom
Almodovar's first take on life in Madrid. Pepi Luci and Bom are three girls living in the city during the punk era surrounded by sex, drugs and rock and roll...
| Starring | Cecilia Roth, Assumpta Serna, Carmen Maura, Felix Rotaeta, Eva Siva, Concha Gregori |
|---|---|
| Director | Pedro Almodovar |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Spanish |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 14 Nov 2005 Production year: 1980 |
| Format | DVD |
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The first full-length movie from Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar set the camp/trash/kitsch seal on his future output. Informed by the Andy Warhol pop art, photo romances and John Waters cult movies of his youth, Almodóvar's zany dissection of what constitutes happiness for people living on the edge is a flawed home-movie in which the flaws dictate a surreal style all their own. Featuring a cast of actual investors in the picture, including friends (and future leading ladies) Carmen Maura and Cecilia Roth, it tells the story of how three Madrid girls bond and set up house after rape, revenge, disco kidnapping, underwear commercials, erection competitions and sadistic lesbian fantasies throw them all together.
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Almodóvar's first full-length feature attempts to shock and surprise with a kitsch mix of sex, cruelty and eccentricity.
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Pepi, Luci, Bombs
Much as I love this director I can only give this two stars. OK, maybe the heading is a bit harsh, with a budget of £20K this was never going to be a masterpiece. All the Almodovar elements are there in this early work, sex, drugs, tranvestites, S&M, dark humour and strong yet fragile women, probably on the verge of a nervous breakdown. This story of the 'Movida Madrilena' that exploded in the years after Franco's death says as much about Spanish machismo and misogyny as it does about the liberation of Spanish women. It reminded me a little of Derek Jarman's 1977 Jubilee and the film opens with Little Nell's (who played Crabs in that film) 'Do the swim', there is also a recognition of John Water's influence with a photo of his muse Divine appearing in one shot. This is one for completists and only provides a hint of the genius that would emerge in Almodovar's later work. I am sorry but this won't make it into my collection of great Spanish cinema.
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- Waterboy
- Posted 19 Apr 2007 03:10
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Pepi, Luci, Bombs
Much as I love this director I can only give this two stars. OK, maybe the heading is a bit harsh, with a budget of £20K this was never going to be a masterpiece. All the Almodovar elements are there in this early work, sex, drugs, tranvestites, S&M, dark humour and strong yet fragile women, probably on the verge of a nervous breakdown. This story of the 'Movida Madrilena' that exploded in the years after Franco's death says as much about Spanish machismo and misogyny as it does about the liberation of Spanish women. It reminded me a little of Derek Jarman's 1977 Jubilee and the film opens with Little Nell's (who played Crabs in that film) 'Do the swim', there is also a recognition of John Water's influence with a photo of his muse Divine appearing in one shot. This is one for completists and only provides a hint of the genius that would emerge in Almodovar's later work. I am sorry but this won't make it into my collection of great Spanish cinema.
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- Waterboy
- Posted 19 Apr 2007 03:10
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