What Have I Done to Deserve This?
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Actor: ?ngel de Andr?s L?pez, Beni, Diego Caretti, Jos? Manuel Bello, Ver?nica Forqu?Brand: Genius
Primary Contributor: Luis Hostalot
Primary Contributor: Carmen Maura
Primary Contributor: Su?rez, Gonzalo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-09
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Fox Lorber
Movie Reviews of What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Movie Review: Black humor, but not very funny
Summary: 3 Stars
This satirical film goes by with no laughs while posing as a comedy. It's only when you think about what's on the screen, that you see the darkness. Aldomovar hits a lot of vices here: sex, drugs, child molestation, prostitution, murder. Yet, none of these normally titillating topics seem to go very far here. The film sits there and washes past you. What does it all mean? That's up to you, but it's a typical European film with ambiguities and things left unsaid that seem momentous, but which may not be, in reality. Interesting views of working class life in Madrid that tourists don't see.
Summary of What Have I Done to Deserve This?
5.1 subtitle controlPedro Almod?var scored his first international hit with What Have I Done to Deserve This?, cementing his reputation as Spain's bad-boy director of darkly comedic melodramas. Many of the themes that dominate Almod?var's later films are evident here, especially his sympathetic affection for downtrodden women like Gloria (Carmen Maura), an exhausted housewife who's addicted to No-Doz tablets and spends 18-hour days cleaning apartments and tending (just barely) to her teenage sons (one deals drugs, the other offers sex to local perverts), neglectful husband, and looney-tunes mother-in-law--all of whom have a particular knack for getting on her nerves. Toss in a prostitute neighbor, an accidental murder, and a pet lizard named "Money," and you've got the makings of a soap opera by way of Luis Bu?uel and John Waters, served up with Almod?var's distinctive blend of compassionate humanity and kinky outrageousness. --Jeff Shannon
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