A dish of Almodóvar's cold and insincere sensationalism. Mother and daughter, a pop singer and a TV anchorwoman respectively, reunite after a separation of fifteen years. Daughter is now married to one of Mother's old flames. It's all rather ungripping, excepting the loud and aggressive color, till it turns positively repulsing with the introduction of a female impersonator who's the daughter's "close" friend and whose on-stage specialty is a lip-synched impression of the mother, and who also turns out (undetected by the daughter, though detected by the viewer) to be the false-bearded homicide investigator called in when the husband is murdered. A dance routine in the exercise yard of women's prison is the incongruous high point. Victoria Abril, Maria Paredes. (1991) — Duncan Shepherd
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