The Flower of My Secret
by Pedro Almod?var, Daniel Cebri?n
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Actor: Carme Elias, Imanol Arias, Juan Echanove, Marisa Paredes, Pedro Almod?varDirector: Daniel Cebri?n, Pedro Almod?var
Writer: Pedro Almod?var
Producer: Esther Garc?a
Producer: Agust?n Almod?var
Producer: Lola Garc?a
Producer: Paz Sufrategui
Writer: Dorothy Parker
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-12
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of The Flower of My Secret
Movie Review: Underrated
Summary: 5 Stars
Almodovar's work seems to follow a progression. It seems to me that The Flower Of My Secret actually marked the beginning of a new stage. As opposed to his previous movies, this one leaves off most of the comedy effects to focus on the intricacies of a writer's life, Leo (short for Leocadia), who struggles to find her way in a life that everybody insists to keep her sheltered from: Her husband doesn't love her, her best friend keeps a shocking secret from her, and even her maid and the maid's son keep a double life behind her back... All this under the excuse or assumption that she is too fragile to deal with it, though that is also a way of covering their own selfishness. When the truth finally surfaces, she is forced to create a new life out of the old one with the help of her sort of crazy family and her new boss.
One of the curiosities of this movie is how it contains the seeds for two other movies Almodovar will make later:
- The scene on the transplant seminar (played by Kitty Manver as a coach nurse in this movie) will be reprised at the beginning of All About My Mother (with Cecilia Roth in the same role).
- The story that Leo delivers to her horrified Romantic Novel editors, about a mother who hides the corpse of her husband in a freezer after he rapes his stepdaughter and is killed in self defense, seems to be the original idea for Volver, that Almodovar will film years later.
Though certainly it might be said this movie is not the best Almodovar ever filmed, especially when he is always trying to top himself, it is well above average, with a complex character development, and well plotted. Definitely, an underrated movie.
Summary of The Flower of My Secret
Pedro Alomod?var made this misfired, rambling comedy about a romance novelist (Marisa Paredes) whose crumbling marriage has left her depressed and unable to work. At a low point, she writes a scathing indictment of her own books (which are penned under another name), with no one realizing critic and author are one and the same. Almod?var (Law of Desire) has the start of a great idea here, and for once, he's direct about his sympathy for a character. But nothing else about The Flower of My Secret is so clear. Despite its unusual allegiance to the straightforward "women's films" of the 1950s, this movie blows it by becoming needlessly complicated over extraneous junk, forcing one to grope in the dark for Almod?var's point. --Tom KeoghArt House & International DVD Video
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