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| FILM DETAILS | | Certificate 18 | | Cast
Veronica Forque
Victoria Abril
Peter Coyote
Alex Casanove | | Directors
Pedro Almodovar | | Screenwriters
Pedro Almodovar | | Running Time
115 minutes |
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Kika
Typically over-the-top offering from Almodovar.
Plot
A typically sprawling piece from Almodovar that revolves around a make-up artist, Kika who falls in love with a famous writer's step-son. The film then concentrates on the things that stand between their happiness, such as Kika's affair with the writer and the death of her new lover's mother.
Verdict
With Almodovar's early work, it was all about extravagance with his later work such as Talk to Her and Bad Education aiming more for the intellectuals. It's a surprise, then that this film lacks both the flamboyancy of his earlier work and the depth of his latter, landing somewhere unsatisfactorily in the middle.
Reviewed by Phillipa Bloom
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