What Have I Done to Deserve This?

The question in the title is a desperate response to the state of society, and yet the film remains Almodóvar's most brilliant vision of the state of pop culture, while being surprisingly inspired by neorealism and Dadaism.

¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!
Spain 1984
  • Czech
102 min.
15+
  • This film is available until 31. 8. 2027 in these territories: Czechia, Slovakia.
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Gloria (Carmen Maura) is the central character of the story, a woman who commits a crime but is forgiven because her family and married life was too unbearable. Neorealism is the springboard here for the portrayal of a model of a „typical“ family. The father (Ángel de Andrés López) is an immigrant and a crazy dreamer, the mother may work herself to death to support them all, one of the sons is a drug addict and skip school, and the other is experiencing somewhat premature homosexuality. And last but not least, a slightly deranged grandmother (Chus Lampreave) symbolizes the clash between rural and urban and a return to her roots…

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Credits
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Screenplay: Pedro Almodóvar
Cinematography: Ángel Luis Fernández
Music: Bernardo Bonezzi
Sound: Bernardo Menz, Enrique Molinero
Editing: José Salcedo
Producer: Hervé Hachuel
Costumes: Cecilia Roth
Cast: Carmen Maura, Ángel de Andrés López, Gonzalo Suárez, Verónica Forqué, Chus Lampreave, Cecilia Roth, Pedro Almodóvar, Jaime Chávarri, Amparo Soler Leal, Luis Hostalot, Ryo Hiruma, Juan Martínez, Kiti Mánver, Sonia Hohmann
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  • This film is available until 31. 8. 2027 in these territories: Czechia, Slovakia.