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Entre tinieblas (Dark Habits) (Dark Hideout) (1984)

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In this Pedro Almodóvar film, a singer at a low-end nightclub hides out at a convent after her lover dies of a bad dose of drugs, and she meets a group of off-the-wall nuns while in hiding. The nuns range from one who writes sensationalist pulp fiction under a pseudonym to another who takes drugs, and another hooked on masochism. But their private lives and perverse foibles may be in jeopardy when a new mother superior arrives to take charge of the convent. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Sep 9, 2003

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All Critics (11) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (3) | DVD (2)

Mildly engaging, Dark Habits, Almodovar's third features about nuns on the run, is not as satirical or entertaining as his previous or later films.

June 6, 2011 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

Possibly the first work to hint at the tender sadness of [Almodóvar's]later phase

December 8, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comment
CinePassion

Almodóvar on crazy nuns should be as madcap as Peter Jackson was on zombies ( ... ) But the result is a rather low-key affair.

November 16, 2009 Full Review Source: PopMatters | Comment
PopMatters

It's hard to imagine how it could be any more Almodovar-esque than it is.

May 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Plenty of premise but little payoff.

May 3, 2005 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | Comment
Lessons of Darkness

far drearier and lifeless than Almodóvar's best films

November 29, 2003 Full Review Source: Old School Reviews | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Entre tinieblas (Dark Habits) (Dark Hideout)

For me, Dark Habits is Pedro Almodóvar's first great film and still stands as one of his best. It's wickedly funny from the outset and just gets funnier and funnier, I think even the staunchest catholics would find it hard not to smirk at at least one joke. Almodóvar is Spanish though, and being brought up in Calzada

October 24, 2011
SirPant

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"Sister Manure, Sister Rat, Sister Damned, Sister Snake. Man will not be saved until he realizes he is the most despicable being ever created."A most unconventional convent, populated with drug addicts, murderers, extortionists and lesbians. Almost makes me wish I was Catholic.

January 19, 2009
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Randy Tippy

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