What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1985)
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Genres - Comedy, Drama |
Sub-Genres - Black Comedy, Domestic Comedy |
Run Time - 100 min. |
Countries - Spain |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, the Luis Buñuel of the 1980s, cooks up another perversely funny descent into urban hell in What Have I Done to Deserve This? Carmen Maura plays a middle-class housewife hemmed in by her wildly eccentric relatives. Her principal purpose in life is a balancing act: to keep her head fastened on securely while all others are losing theirs. Film buffs will have a field day toting up Almodóvar's visual and verbal allusions to the works of Buñuel, Brian De Palma, Billy Wilder, John Waters, and even Andy Warhol. What Have I Done to Deserve This? was originally titled ¿Que He Hecho Yo Para Merecer Esto?
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Keywords
homemaker, mother, family, havoc, son, drugs, homosexual, prostitute/prostitution
