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

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.

melodramaticemotionaltensewittycampysoapyvisually lushdarkly comic

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)

Trailer

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