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Más Almodóvar: The Flower of My Secret (1995)

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Date(s) - 12/28/2016
7:00 PM - 8:45 PM

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Roxie Theater

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  • La flor de mi secreto (original title)
  • R | 1h 43min | Drama | 8 March 1996 (USA)

Pedro Almodovar casts aside his predilection for stylized high comedy and moves into full-blooded melodrama in “The Flower of My Secret.” Far from abandoning his trademark humor, however, the writer-director skillfully enlists it in the service of an emotional story, charting the heroine’s journey from loss and torment to rediscovered strength and hope.

The lovelorn femme is Leo (Marisa Paredes), whose marriage to NATO official Paco (Imanol Arias) is fast skidding to a halt. A writer of bestselling romance novels under the nom de plume Amanda Gris, Leo’s dismal personal life renders her incapable of delivering the rosy pulp required by her contract. Instead, she becomes progressively more fond of the bottle, and pens a dark tale of death, deemed un-publishable. In an amusing dig at one of Almodovar’s compatriot directors, the novel is stolen from Leo’s trash and sold, becoming the basis for a Bigas Luna feature. (Variety)

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Leo Macías es una escritora de novela rosa que se oculta tras el seudónimo de Amanda Gris. Obligada por contrato a entregar tres novelas al año, lleva meses incumpliéndolo; en vez de novela rosa le sale negra. Su marido, que es militar, está participando en una misión de paz en Bosnia, pero antes de su partida, la pareja vivía una de sus peores crisis. El aplazamiento de la solución a sus problemas matrimoniales provoca en Leo una fragilidad y una inseguridad que invade todos los aspectos de su vida. Sabe que Paco ya no la quiere, pero ella se aferra ciegamente y se aferra a cualquier esperanza, por absurda que sea.

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