Tuesday, August 09, 2005

¿Qué he hecho YO para merecer esto!! / What Have I Done to Deserve This?!!


Pedro Almodóvar: ¿Qué he hecho YO para merecer esto!! / What Have I Done to Deserve This?!! (ES 1984) starring Carmen Maura as Gloria.

Mitä olen tehnyt ansaitakseni tämän?!! / Vad har jag gjort för att förtjäna detta?
    ES © 1984 Tesauro / Kaktus. EX: Hervé Hachuel. D+SC: Pedro Almodóvar. DP: Angel Luis Fernández – Eastmancolor – 1,66. Sets: Pin Morales, Román Arango. FX: Francisco Prosper. M: Bernardo Bonezzi. Songs: "La bien pagá" lip-synched by Almodóvar; "Nur nicht aus Liebe weinen" (Mackeben) sung by Zarah Leander. Sound: Bernardo Menz. ED: José Salcedo.
    Starring Carmen Maura (Gloria), Angel de Andrés López (Antonio), Chus Lampreave (Grandmother), Verónica Forqué (Cristal), Kiti Manver (Juani), Juan Martínez (Tony), Cecilia Roth (Girl in Commercial), Jaime Chavarri (Striptease customer), Gonzalo Suárez (Lucas).
    Dep. legal 12705–1984.
    102 min
    Fine new 2005 print bought by the Finnish Film Archive from El Deseo / Technicolor Madrid with funds from our sales of Teuvo Tulio's television rights to the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation.
    Print check viewing 8 Aug 2005 at Orion, Helsinki.

Almodóvar's first great film in which Carmen Maura stars as Gloria, the overburdened housewife kept up through her 18-hour day with amphetamines. For the first time Almodóvar mixes his absurd vision with everyday life, and thus wins more profound emotional force. The fine ensemble of actors includes Verónica Forqué as the stripper with a heart of gold and Chus Lampreave as the eccentric grandmother with a pet lizard. It's a multi-story film, but the exhausted-yet-vital Maura is the center.

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