The Flower of My Secret |
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[La Flor di mi secreto] 1995 - Spain Director Starring |
The general critical line on this film seems to be that this is the film that marked his transition into ‘mature’ filmmaking — and in terms of technical perfection and greater accessibility I would agree this is of a piece with everything that comes after (the only later film I have yet to see now is Bad Education). But I don’t agree with that dismissive attitude toward his earlier work, and the ‘rules’ about technique and narrative development have never applied to Almo… well, he’s a “you get it, or you don’t” guy. Anyway, this is a rather straightforward one about a writer having a mid-life identity crisis and the dissolution of a perfectly conventional marriage. Plenty of Almodovarian touches, some delightful foreshadowing of All About My Mother and Volver, and brief respites of giddy humor (Chus calling Rossy “crabface” = best thing ever), but this is one of his more serious — certainly, “mature” — efforts. |
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