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1986 - Pedro Almodóvar - 100 mins - Spain
Fri 22 Feb 2002 at 8.30pm Joyce's Lounge, Tuamgraney, Co. Clare
Midnight Court Rating: 5.0 (1 votes)
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Antonio Banderas portrays Angel, a wealthy, hyper-sensitive and tormented young bullfighting apprentice who faints at the sight of blood and gets dizzy from watching clouds. When the instructor questions Angel's sexuality he decides to prove his manhood by raping the instructor's young girlfriend, a model, but inspires her contempt rather than fear as he fails even at that. Angel turns himself in to the police for what he believes to be a successful violation and he also confesses to murders -- that were committed by his lawyer (Assumpta Serna). "The movie," says Almodovar, "evokes a very abstract feeling of the two Spains represented by the two mothers in the story. A modern Spain and liberal one is embodied by Chus Lampreave in the role of the mother of the model (Eva Cobo), a spontaneous woman without preconceived ideas. The other mother, interpreted by Julieta Serrano, represents what is the worst in Spain, a castrating mother who is the cause of the psychosis of her child. She generates a terrible inferiority complex, a mother that is terrible in Spanish religious manners."
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