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Netflix announced 12 movies from Pedro Almodóvar that arrive in its cata February. Director, screenwriter, composer and actor, Almodóvar is one of the most iconic filmmakers of our time, compared to great names such as Luis Buñuel and Carlos Saura of Spanish cinema. His films address heavy themes with a unique and inimitable language. 76e72
Pedro Almodóvar's films have already won two Oscars, two Golden Globes, four BAFTAs, four Cannes Film Festival awards and six Goya awards, consecrating the Spanish director as one of the best in the world. And this very expressive number can increase. parallel mothers (Parallel mothers, 2021), a Netflix original film directed and written by Almodóvar, which premieres on 18/02, had two Oscar nominations 2022: best actress for Penélope Cruz and soundtrack by Alberto Iglesias.
Bad Habits (1983) 1h4xp
Rotten Tomatoes: 69% | Metacritic: 🇧🇷 IMDB: 6,6
Yolanda Bel (Cristina Sánchez Pascual) is a cabaret singer who leads an unruly life until the day she witnesses the overdose death of her boyfriend. Wanted by the police, she decides to seek refuge in the convent of the Humiliated Redeemers, whose Mother Superior is a big fan of hers. There, she meets a community of poor nuns who were once prostitutes, addicts, pimps, criminals and, even in the convent, did not abandon their bad habits.
Debut: February 8 nd.
What did I do to deserve this? (1984) 3s3y2a
Rotten Tomatoes: 78% | Metacritic: 🇧🇷 IMDB: 7,2
Gloria (Carmen Maura) is an unhappy housewife, married to Antônio (Ángel de Andrés López), a rude and unfaithful taxi driver. Gloria is forced to work incessantly to her family, which is still made up of a drug-dealing son, an exploitative mother-in-law and another teenager, whom she decides to sell to her dentist. To top it off, Gloria, addicted to sleeping pills, enters a withdrawal phase and starts to lose control.
Debut: February 9 nd.
The Law of Desire (1986) 1r6l26
Rotten Tomatoes: 100% | Metacritic: 🇧🇷 IMDB: 7,1
Pablo Quintero (Eusebio Poncela) is a homosexual theater director. He is in love with Juan Bermúdez (Miguel Molina), but his ion is unrequited. Tina (Carmen Maura) is her sister, having had a sex reassignment operation years earlier to maintain an incestuous relationship with her father. She is an actress and stars in the monologue “The Human Voice” by Jean Cocteau. Pablo is writing the script for a film that will star his sister. Meanwhile, she decides to adopt Ada (Manuela Velasco), whose mother (Bibiana Fernández) has traveled. There is also Antonio Benitez (Antonio Banderas), an upper-middle class young man who struggles to it his homosexuality and is always around Pablo.
Debut: February 8 nd.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) 682f4i
Rotten Tomatoes: 90% | Metacritic: 85 | IMDB: 7,6
In Madrid, Pepa Marcos (Carmen Maura), an actress who is pregnant, but nobody knows, is abandoned by Ivan (Fernando Guillén), her lover, and she despairs trying to find him. She receives a visit from Candela (María Barranco), a friend who has fallen in love with a stranger and who discovers that the loved one is a Shiite terrorist, fearing arrest. Ivan's wife discovers her husband's betrayal and tries to kill him. Pepa wants to do everything to save Ivan's life.
Debut: February 9 nd.
From High Heels (1991) 2w145j
Rotten Tomatoes: 53% | Metacritic: 51 | IMDB: 7,1
Becky del Páramo (Marisa Paredes) is a famous singer who abandoned her daughter, Rebeca (Victoria Abril), to invest in her career fifteen years ago. Back in Spain, Becky is surprised to discover that her daughter is now a TV star and is married to her former lover.
Debut: February 10 nd.
Kika (1994) 2u5k5u
Rotten Tomatoes: 60% | Metacritic: 53 | IMDB: 6,5
Kika (Verónica Forqué) is a very optimistic makeup artist who gets involved with photographer Ramón (Àlex Casanovas) after a very unusual situation. He is a very closed person, but that doesn't stop the happiness of the couple, who will only have to overcome that Kika was the lover of Nicholas (Peter Coyote), Ramon's stepfather.
Debut: February 8 nd.
The Flower of My Secret (1995) 2jh47
Rotten Tomatoes: 83% | Metacritic: 75 | IMDB: 7,0
Leo Macias (Marisa Paredes) is a novelist who writes second-rate stories and achieves some success, but hides under the pseudonym Amanda Gris. At the same time, she feels unhappy, because Paco (Imanol Arias), her husband, is a soldier who is always abroad. When her marriage begins to crumble, Leo finds herself falling into despair, which drives her to drink and stop writing her short stories. However, some surprises are in store for her.
Debut: February 9 nd.
Trembling Flesh (1997) fi6m
Rotten Tomatoes: 81% | Metacritic: 69 | IMDB: 7,4
Madrid, January 1970. A prostitute has a child on a bus as she tries to get to the maternity ward. The baby's name is Victor. After twenty years, Victor (Liberto Rabal) is starting his adult life and tries to meet Elena (sca Neri), a stranger with whom, a week before, he had a fleeting encounter.
Debut: February 10 nd.
Talk to Her (2002) 244d14
Rotten Tomatoes: 91% | Metacritic: 86 | IMDB: 7,9
In Madrid, lives Benigno Martin (Javier Cámara), a nurse whose apartment is opposite the ballet academy run by Katerina Bilova (Geraldine Chaplin). He stays at the window of his house watching rehearsals with special attention to one of Katerina's students, Alicia Roncero (Leonor Watling). When Alicia is injured in a car accident, she ends up in the hospital where he works. Benigno takes care of her, in a coma, with above-normal care.
Debut: February 8 nd.
Bad Education (2004) q4p6b
Rotten Tomatoes: 88% | Metacritic: 81 | IMDB: 7,4
Madrid, 1980. Enrique Goded (Fele Martínez) is a filmmaker who is experiencing creative block and is having trouble coming up with a new project. That's when an actor looking for work approaches him, identifying himself as Ignacio Rodriguez (Gael García Bernal), Enrique's closest friend and also the first love of his life, when they were still boys and studying at the same school. Goded receives from his old friend a script entitled “The Visit”, which was partially elaborated with life experiences that both had. Goded reads the script with deep interest.
This one recounts the strong pedophile tendencies of their literature teacher, Father Manolo (Daniel Giménez Cacho), who, seeing Ignacio and Enrique in a suspicious attitude, says he is going to expel Enrique. Ignacio, knowing that Manolo was in love with him, says he will do anything if he doesn't expel Enrique. So Manolo promises and harasses Ignacio, but doesn't keep his promise and expels Enrique. Goded decides to use the story as the basis for his next film and, because of a lighter, goes to Ignacio's house and discovers a surprising truth.
Debut: February 9 nd.
Back (2006) 63v1q
Rotten Tomatoes: 91% | Metacritic: 84 | IMDB: 7,6
Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) is a young, hardworking and attractive mother who has an unemployed husband and a teenage daughter. As the family faces financial problems, Raimunda accumulates several jobs. Her older sister Sole (Lola Dueñas) owns an illegal beauty salon and has lived alone since her husband left her to run away with one of his clients. One day Sole calls Raimunda to tell her that Paula (Yohana Cobo), their aunt, has died.
Raimunda adored her aunt, but was unable to attend the funeral, as shortly before her sister's phone call she found her husband dead in the kitchen, with a knife buried in his chest. Raimunda's daughter confesses that she killed her father, who was drunk and wanted to sexually abuse her. From then on, Raimunda looks for ways to save her daughter, while Sole travels alone to a village for her aunt's funeral.
Debut: February 10 nd.
Parallel Mothers (2021) 1n5y6z
Rotten Tomatoes: 97% | Metacritic: 88 | IMDB: 71
In Mães Paralelas, two women, Janis (Penélope Cruz) and Ana (Milena Smit), give birth on the same day and in the same hospital. Janis, middle-aged, had her pregnancy planned and already feels ready and euphoric to be a mother. Ana, a teenager, became pregnant by accident and is afraid of what is to come, in addition to being scared, regretful and traumatized.
The two face this journey as single mothers, and while waiting for their babies to arrive, they wander through the hospital corridors, exchanging confessions and outbursts. By sharing not only the same hospital room, but also such a transformative and intense moment in their lives, they build a very deep bond and this chance meeting can change their lives forever, as a strong bond united by motherhood. .
Debut: February 18 nd.
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Sources: I love cinema, Rotten Tomotoes, Metacritic, IMDB.
