High Heels (1991)
- Original title
- Tacones lejanos
- Directed by
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Genre
- drama film, comedy film, crime film, romance film, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- France, Spain
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 469 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A daughter is a TV newscaster whose mother abandoned her as a child. The mother is a famous singer and the daughter has married her ex-lover. A murder complicates their strained relationship.
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What happens
High Heels (Spanish: Tacones lejanos) is a 1991 melodrama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes and Miguel Bosé. The plot follows the fractured relationship between a self-involved mother, a famous torch singer, and her grown daughter she had abandoned as a child. The daughter, who works as a television newscaster, has married her mother's ex-lover and has befriended a female impersonator. A murder further complicates this web of relationships. The film has the feel of other mother–daughter melodramas like Stella Dallas (1937), Mildred Pierce (1945), Imitation of Life (1959) and particularly Autumn Sonata (1978), which is quoted directly in the film. Despite mixed reviews, the film was a commercial success. It was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Most Natural Thing (1991)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.