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What Have I Done to Deserve This?

1984 · 102 min

A grimy, funny-sad swirl of domestic chaos and bad behaviour that makes you laugh and wince at once.

Tagline
The Hell of Home.
Overview
A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • class
  • survival
  • isolation
  • betrayal
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language strong
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour7
Realism7
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Pedro Almodóvar
Written by
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Starring
Carmen Maura, Luis Hostalot, Ryo Hiruma, Ángel de Andrés López, Gonzalo Suárez, Verónica Forqué, Juan Martínez, Chus Lampreave
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
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Country
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Languages
English, French, Spanish, German

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