best almodovar film
best movie ever. carmen maura is excellent.
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Don't know that I'd go as far as to say best movie EVER...Neither do I.
Also, I rate two or three of Pedro's movies higher than this one - good as it was - starting with "The Flower of my Secret" and "All About my Mother" for instance. share
i love bad education and volver
"If you can't fix it, you gotta stand it."
I love Almodovar's films, but somehow I missed this one. I just saw it last night on DVD, and I'm planning on watching it again about five more times. Pedro is stupendously inventive with his humour and set pieces. Off-the-wall hilarious stuff, and it's played 'straight' and deadpan, which intensifies the humour. Carmen Maura is a thing to behold as yet another of Pedro's 'heroic' women. I loved the bit where she just casually sells her son to the flaming pedophile of a dentist. And the son agreeing when he found out the flamer had all the latest gizmos.
Nobody makes films like Pedro. His 'style' is just so recognizable, and you can't say that about too many directors. He satirizes things in society that we haven't even thought about. What has been remarkable about him is his consistency: he just keeps getting better. I can't stand Penelope Cruz since she 'Hollywoodized' herself, but she's great in Volver. All things considered, I think 'What Have I Done, etc.,' although it fades toward the end, is still one of his best films and certainly one of the greatest 'black' comedies I've ever seen.
I think I'd rank "All About My Mother" as my favorite Almodovar film, but this is certainly way up there also, along with "Flower of My Secret" and "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown." This film is inspired lunacy – not quite Almodovar's best, and hardly the best film ever, but it's excellent nonetheless!
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