What Have I Done To Deserve This?
1984
Gloria (Carmen Maura) is a typical Madrid housewife living in an anonymous, run down apartment block. Gloria has her problems. Her slovenly and disinterested taxi driver husband is obsessed with an ex Nazi chanteuse; of her two sons, one has discovered the benifits of dope dealing while the other is a promiscuous homosexual .. Read more
| Starring | Carmen Maura, Juan Martinez, Cecilia Roth |
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| Director | Pedro Almodovar |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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What Have I Done To Deserve This?
Gloria (Carmen Maura) is a typical Madrid housewife living in an anonymous, run down apartment block. Gloria has her problems. Her slovenly and disinterested taxi driver husband is obsessed with an ex Nazi chanteuse; of her two sons, one has discovered the benifits of dope dealing while the other is a promiscuous homosexual conducting affairs with his school mates' fathers; her self reliant mother in law keeps a pet lizard called "Money". Things couldn't get much worse until a bizarre set of incidents leads Gloria to a murder by ham-bone and a labyrinthine plot to forge Hilter's diaries! Pedro Almodovar's fourth feature is a sharp, erotic and scabrously funny black comedy that displays a warm affection towards it's characters and a surprisingly happy ending.
| Starring | Carmen Maura, Juan Martinez, Cecilia Roth |
|---|---|
| Director | Pedro Almodovar |
| Studio | OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 41 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | Spanish |
| Subtitles | English |
| Released | DVD: 20 Nov 2006 Production year: 1984 |
| Format | DVD |
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A typical “kitsch 'n' think” mixture of tragedy and comedy from Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. Carmen Maura is the unhappy Madrid housewife who rebels against the pressures of modern life with drugs and manslaughter when her family's myriad problems drag her deeper into depression. Using the language of Italian neorealism, sexual taboos, fake commercials for bogus products and his skewed sense of autobiographical social conscience, Almodóvar mines this spiky black farce for all its allegorical worth.
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Gloria is a typical Spanish housewife - or is she? Her small apartment would seem enough to keep her occupied, housing... read more on Time Out
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21 out of 22 people found this review helpful
amazing
this will not be a large review, just a little message to say you have to rent this movie. If you love early Pedro, Woman on a verge of a nervous breakdown, Pepi, luci y bom y otras historias del monton, then you are going to love this. It has more to offer than those above, or matador, and it is genuinly funny which is something that a lot of times is very hard to translate. It deals with the sexy carmen and her disfuncial family..the hsuband who is wanted to write hitlers letters, a son who has a gift of copying signatures, another son who pimps himself off to friends fathers and finally the dentist, the grandma and the iguana, the mother who?s had enough and the prostitute neighbour...Pure genius
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21 out of 22 people found this review helpful
amazing
this will not be a large review, just a little message to say you have to rent this movie. If you love early Pedro, Woman on a verge of a nervous breakdown, Pepi, luci y bom y otras historias del monton, then you are going to love this. It has more to offer than those above, or matador, and it is genuinly funny which is something that a lot of times is very hard to translate. It deals with the sexy carmen and her disfuncial family..the hsuband who is wanted to write hitlers letters, a son who has a gift of copying signatures, another son who pimps himself off to friends fathers and finally the dentist, the grandma and the iguana, the mother who?s had enough and the prostitute neighbour...Pure genius
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