Picture Pages - Almodóvar's What Have I Done To Deserve This?

I must blog too much. This is the second post in a row that was born from a dream I had... I lay half-awake all night last night (notice it's 8am on a Sunday right now) thinking of images from Pedro Almodóvar's What Have I Done To Deserve This?, which I watched last night for the first time, that I just had to take screen-grabs of and post. Weird. I am weird.

So I'm by no means an Almodóvar expert, I'm only slowly catching up on his films, but What Have I Done... is, I see, pretty early in his output (of work he did before this, I've only seen the film directly preceding this one, Dark Habits, which this one reminded me most of, just instead of blaspheming nuns he's blaspheming housewives) and he's probably still figuring out his schtick; it's very Bunuel by way of John Waters. Which I think is a good way to describe his early work, and he comes more into his own a little later... I'd say within four years, with Women On the Verge..., he's fully doing his own thing.

Anyway, What Have I Done is also, I did not know beforehand, a companion piece to Volver - (spoiler!) the awesome Carmen Maura plays a battered housewife who does in her husband with a leg of ham (and cooks it up for the police, a la Hitchock's Roald Dahl episode, "Lamb to the Slaughter", of his Presents... TV show)... Chus Lampreave wanders around again with her giant glasses... everybody's wearing so many contrasting plaids and patterns that you're eyes might fall out of your head. They're very similar films, this and Volver, and now I get some of what Almodóvar was riffing on with the later film.

Anyway, it's terrific, very very funny movie. Here are some of the visuals my dream brain demanded I post... the internet will be a better place having them...

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