Filmography
Feb. 14th, 2012 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_lady_lilyWomen on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
G said to me "listen, you should really watch this film, it's by Almodóvar and I think you'll love it". So I watched it, and lo, G was right.
The film is basically farce. It starts off sensibly enough and then just Gets Silly. It's based in some major city in Spain (I'm sure someone who knows more about these things would be able to tell which one), and follows a woman whose lover has left her. She wants to find out why because she needs to talk to him about something. However, she has to deal with her friend who ends up to have slept with a terrorist; her lover's adult son and his rather chilly fiancee; her lover's ex-wife who is, frankly, mad; and a jug of gazpacho filled with sleeping pills. Oh, and ducks on the balcony. And a Mambo Taxi.
I mean, it's totally insane, but it builds from this very usual, very normal film that you think is a Bit Spanish into this fantastically mad and crazy edifice that has just sort of got there by the films own internal weird logic. Oh, and the dialogue is brilliant and had me laughing out loud. Honestly, I don't think I can actually think of anything else to say except that if you fancy a really good laugh and enjoy slightly zany films, watch it. It was brilliant.
G said to me "listen, you should really watch this film, it's by Almodóvar and I think you'll love it". So I watched it, and lo, G was right.
The film is basically farce. It starts off sensibly enough and then just Gets Silly. It's based in some major city in Spain (I'm sure someone who knows more about these things would be able to tell which one), and follows a woman whose lover has left her. She wants to find out why because she needs to talk to him about something. However, she has to deal with her friend who ends up to have slept with a terrorist; her lover's adult son and his rather chilly fiancee; her lover's ex-wife who is, frankly, mad; and a jug of gazpacho filled with sleeping pills. Oh, and ducks on the balcony. And a Mambo Taxi.
I mean, it's totally insane, but it builds from this very usual, very normal film that you think is a Bit Spanish into this fantastically mad and crazy edifice that has just sort of got there by the films own internal weird logic. Oh, and the dialogue is brilliant and had me laughing out loud. Honestly, I don't think I can actually think of anything else to say except that if you fancy a really good laugh and enjoy slightly zany films, watch it. It was brilliant.
