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What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Qu he hecho yo para merecer esto!!) (1984)

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Filmmaker Pedro Almodvar, the Luis Buuel of the 1980s, cooks up another perversely funny descent into urban hell in What Have I Done to Deserve This? Carmen Maura plays a middle-class housewife hemmed in by her wildly eccentric relatives. Her principal purpose in life is a balancing act: to keep her head fastened on securely while all others are losing theirs. Film buffs will have a field day toting up Almodvar's visual and verbal allusions to the works of Buuel, Brian De Palma, Billy Wilder,

Sep 9, 2003

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Diverting, with a light suggestion of talent.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
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Almodovar's fourth feature (but the first to be released in the US) may be one of his most realistic films, an offbeat, darkly humorous feminist comedy with a great performance by Carmen Maura.

March 7, 2011 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

It's all a lot like early period John Waters -- only better acted and set in Madrid.

August 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Comment
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A somewhat harsh critique of a Spanish culture that dooms women to indentured servitude.

May 4, 2005 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | Comment
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Hitler, a lizard, a prostitute, a telekinetic neighbor and a dead body in the kitchen.I suppose it wouldn't be a Pedro Almodóvar film if it didn't make you say "WTF?" at least once.Deliciously weird.

January 13, 2009
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I see What Have I Done to Deserve This? as a slightly weaker version of Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Different story when it comes to the family situation but essentially the same film. The comedy is fast and furious as you'd expect, Murder, Lizards, prostitutes etc it is definitely an Almodvar film but I

October 25, 2011
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