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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Pedro Almodsvar |
| Stars: |
Marisa Parades |
| Actors: |
Rosa Marma Sard` |
| Genre: |
Foreign Films |
| Subgenre: |
Women · Essential Cinema · Spanish |
| MPAA Rating: |
R (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
DVD |
| UPC: |
043396047198 |
| Release Date: |
1999 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 42min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
Spanish |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD, 1hr 41min
Release Date: November 03, 2009
UPC: 043396332232 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 1hr 42min
Release Company: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (July 11, 2000)
UPC: 043396041592 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Pedro Almodsvar |
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Professional Reviews
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(09/??/1999, p.40, Jose Arroyo): "...[The film] dramatises a general condition with formal elegance, nuanced observations and emotional resonance..." |
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Quotes from the Movie
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"They call me La Agrado, because I have always tried to make everyone's life more pleasant. I used to work the streets, on bridges, near the cemetery. Aside from being pleasant I am also very authentic: almond shaped eyes, 80 thousand; silicone in lips, forehead, cheeks, hips and ass, the liter costs sixty thousand pesetas...you add it up because I stopped counting. Tits? Two, I'm no monster. Seventy each, but these have been fully depreciated. It cost me a lot to be authentic, but we must not be cheap in regards to the way we look. Because a woman is more authentic the more she looks like what she has dreamed for herself.--Agrado (Antonia San Juan) |
| More Information |
| Details: |
Cecilia Roth stars in this celebrated film from Spanish director Pedro Almodsvar. Distraught over the death of her teenage son, Manuela drives to Barcelona to find the boy's father, an itinerant transsexual named Lola (Toni Canto). While combing the city's less reputable districts, she also meets up with Agrado (Antonia San Juan), a sassy transvestite prostitute, and Rosa (Penilope Cruz), a pregnant nun on her way to El Salvador. She also becomes the manager for Huma (Marisa Paredes), the actress her son idolized, and helps her through a run of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. Together these great ladies bond through various heartrending crises, enduring the pain and celebrating the beauty of being women (or almost women). Considered to be one of Almodsvar's most fully realized works, this charming and unique film blends his earlier gender-bending irreverence with the mature grace and compassion of his later work, striking a perfect note of humor and pathos. |
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