What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)

Original title

¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?

Directed by

Pedro Almodóvar

Genre

comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Spain

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

16

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 270 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An overworked housewife copes with a deadbeat husband, a delinquent son, and a peculiar mother-in-law. Her life spirals into blackmail, murder and small-time criminal schemes in a gritty Madrid apartment.

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What happens

What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Spanish: ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!) is a 1984 Spanish black comedy film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. The title is sometimes given with an exclamation mark at the end rather than a question mark. Starring Carmen Maura, Ángel de Andrés López, Chus Lampreave and Verónica Forqué, the film follows the misadventures of an overworked housewife and her dysfunctional family. Almodóvar has described What Have I Done as a homage to Italian neorealism, although this tribute also involves jokes about paedophilia, prostitution, and a telekinetic child. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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