Kika

Pros: Colorful Direction, Sets, Cinematography, Soundtrack, & Cast.
Cons: Uneven Script, Pacing Issues, & Bending of Genres.

After 1988's international breakthrough for Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown), Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar has finally achieved the international attention he had sought for. After the ...

Pros: Effective indictment of cultural voyeurism through plot, characters, and visuals
Cons: Almodovar’s brassy sense of humor will not tickle every viewer’s funny bone

“Is it live, or is it Memorex?” If we do not forever memorialize an experience as a “Kodak moment,” is it worth remembering?

Spanish director Pedro Almodovar wraps his camera around the theme of the seductiveness of second-hand experience in...

Pros: Is a visually stunning, well-crafted movie. One of Almodovar's best.
Cons: Is quite artsy.

This movie, all by itself, warrants the joke in 'Cecil B. Demented' where the character who had "Almodovar" tatooed on his arm was a straight man who wished that he was gay. This movie carries a lot of sexual energy, and a lot of the symbolism forces...

Pros: Fun, Raunchy, Franco/Spanish
Cons: If you don't speak French or Spanish...

If you liked "All about my Mother," I recommend you watch "Kika," an older and crazier movie by the same director.
Kika is my favorite Pedro Almodovar movie because it reached a creative summit. Kika stages crazy characters,...