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Though The Flower of My Secret is a slight work, it is a pleasing return to form. May 20, 2003 | Rating: 3/5
Though The Flower of My Secret is a slight work, it is a pleasing return to form.
Caryn James
The movie is full of familiar Almodovar fare, but it feels freshened. Dec 11, 2002
The movie is full of familiar Almodovar fare, but it feels freshened.
Desson Thomson
An intimate, beautifully wrought work, it reflects a new maturity in Almodovar's work and is one of his best pictures. Feb 14, 2001 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
An intimate, beautifully wrought work, it reflects a new maturity in Almodovar's work and is one of his best pictures.
Kevin Thomas
It's bland as often as it is affecting, and presents little that's new or original. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
It's bland as often as it is affecting, and presents little that's new or original.
James Berardinelli
Likely to be disappointing to Almodovar's admirers, and inexplicable to anyone else. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Likely to be disappointing to Almodovar's admirers, and inexplicable to anyone else.
Roger Ebert
It slowly unfolds from a narrow satire into a romance that's rich with real-life bitterness. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
It slowly unfolds from a narrow satire into a romance that's rich with real-life bitterness.
Scott Rosenberg
There is not much of a plot; just real, romantically entwined lives -- a world away from the gaudy camp Almodovar had begun to tire us with. Dec 12, 2017 | Full Review…
There is not much of a plot; just real, romantically entwined lives -- a world away from the gaudy camp Almodovar had begun to tire us with.
Quentin Curtis
If it isn't as successful as his very best work, neither is it a failure -- and there are certainly enough Alomodovarisms to bring a smile to anyone's face Oct 4, 2006 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
If it isn't as successful as his very best work, neither is it a failure -- and there are certainly enough Alomodovarisms to bring a smile to anyone's face
Ken Hanke
Dramatizes the contentious relationship between fiction and reality. May 3, 2005 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Dramatizes the contentious relationship between fiction and reality.
Nick Schager
an archetypal romantic comedy that reshapes the mold Apr 14, 2005 | Rating: 4/5
an archetypal romantic comedy that reshapes the mold
Christopher Null
I found this dramatization a mature Almodovar work, perceptive and cutting through in an incisive way to the everyday problems in life that wear people down. Feb 21, 2004 | Rating: B | Full Review…
I found this dramatization a mature Almodovar work, perceptive and cutting through in an incisive way to the everyday problems in life that wear people down.
Dennis Schwartz
Depicts the magical turnaround in the life of a writer of romance novels. Aug 27, 2002 | Full Review…
Depicts the magical turnaround in the life of a writer of romance novels.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Minor but not less entertaining Almodóvar, filled with his usual visual flair and bizarre and soapoperarish trademarks.
Super Reviewer
A romance novel writer attempts to save her failing marriage while pursued by her new editor. This Almodovar film is simple and simplistic melodrama. There are all the elements: an overly emotional protagonist who obsesses over the wrong man and tries to kill herself, a family drama with a dying mother, and some coincidences too coincidental to be believed. All of the film's flaws notwithstanding, I found Almodovar's dialogue less stilted and her characters a little more realistic than I normally do, so there were some diamonds in the rough. But overall, it's mostly rough.
A little more 'mainstream' than the Almodóvar I've come to know and love, but still very enjoyable.
It will take a spectacular film from Pedro Almodóvar to knock Hable con ella and Volver out of the #1 and #2 positions on my favorite Almodóvar list. After seeing this one, I'm still looking for that better film. This didn't really strike me as bearing all the Almodóvar marks that I admire most. In fact, I found it a bit tedious. But I'll not give up my search. Every one of his productions is worth seeing at least once, just so you can know you've seen it. It's never a waste of time.
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