The Flower of My Secret was the first film of Almodóvar I’ve ever seen, some 30 years ago, in the Hyde Park Picture House of Leeds*. Yesterday, we re-watched it thanks to Spanish Television†.
Turned out that I remembered this movie pretty well. The difference is, now I don’t need English subtitles to understand the dialogue. The great late Marisa Paredes is as elegant as she is in the role of Leo. The comic relief is provided by Chus Lampreave and Rossy de Palma as Leo’s mother and sister, respectively.
| * | I’ve found the issue of Leeds Student with screening times for this film. To my surprise, the first page of the newspaper sports a photo of “the rare cloud phenomenon that ... is unlikely to be repeated during our lifetime” which I had a pleasure to observe with my own eyes on 16 February 1996. |
| † | It was shown as part of the cycle Historia de nuestro cine, to mark the anniversary of the death of Marisa Paredes. |
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