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Almodovar - The Collection: Volume 2 (Box Set) (DVD)
Category: Drama :: General
Price: £16.89
Product Description
A collection of Pedro Almodovar films: Flower of My Secret (1995) - Spain's high priest of hip, Pedro Almodovar, returns with a brilliant combination of his familiar stylized comedy and a new departure into full-blooded melodrama. Leo leads a secret double life as an author of romantic fiction. However her success as the best-selling Amanda Gris hasn't brought her happiness and things are getting worse. Her husband doesn't love her, her best friend is strangely distracted and her mother and sister are too busy bickering to notice that anything's wrong. Abandoned by her muse and seeking solace in the bottle since the collapse of her marriage, an unlikely rescuer sets her on a collision course to a new emotional entanglement... Kika (1993) - Young cosmetologist Kika (Vernica Forqu) is called to the mansion of rich American Nicholas (Peter Coyote) in order to make up the corpse of his stepson Ramon. As it turns out, Ramon is not actually dead and he begins an affair with Kika... However, the path of true love never does run smooth and the pair must survive the threats of Kika's previous affair with Nicholas, the mystery surrounding the all-too suspicious death of Ramon's mother and Ramon's former psychologist... ' Kika ', an hilarious comedy written and directed by Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar, comes to DVD fOr the first time. Law of Desire (1987) - ' Law of Desire ' is an unbridled send-up of the absurdities of human desire, a wildly funny film that took American and European audiences by storm and immediately established director Pedro Almodovar. ' Law of Desire ' features a fabulous trio - Pablo, a famous Madrid director for whom men are prepared to die, his new love-crazed boyfriend Antonio, and Pablo's flamboyant and gorgeous transsexual sister Tina. Pablo is suffering because Juan, his lover, shares his steamy passion but not his commitment, and has returned to his village in southern Spain. Trying to forget him, Pablo is seduced by the tall, dark, handsome and heterosexual Antonio who, in the space of 24 hours, goes from having his first gay affair, to being Pablo's demanding - and threatening - lover. Pablo makes the mistake of dismissing Antonio as inconsequential but Antonio intends to pursue his passions to their ultimate conclusion. Matador (1986) - At his school in Madrid, ex-bullfighter Diego Montes instructs his students in the corrida: 'the art of the kill'. Trainee bullfighter Angelo, sexually repressed and mother fixated, is taunted about his suspected homosexuality by Diego. To prove his masculinity Angel attempts to sexually assault Diego's girlfriend. Failing in his attempt and consumed by guilt he confesses to murders he did not commit the victims are killed with bullfighting instruments at the moment of sexual climax. Angel is defended by lawyer Maria Cardenal, the real killer, who is obsessed with Diego and uses Angel to draw the maestro Matador into one last confrontation. | |
