Search: Starring Marisa Paredes

All About My Mother (1999)

Review preview for All About My Mother

Far from dull, not as camp as you might expect, emotionally at a high pitch, expertly directed and nudgingly naughty.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5

Melodramatic look at love and friendship.
The Devil's Backbone (2001)

Review preview for The Devil's Backbone

The film takes standard ingredients of a good horror movie - the sinister setting, the horrible crime, the ghostly presence, the newcomer - and uses a surprisingly gore-free, old-fashioned way of scaring the audience.

Trinity · 4 out of 5

Ghosts haunt an isolated orphanage during the last year of the Spanish Civil War.
High Heels (1991)

Review preview for High Heels

Almodóvar is so confident that he can afford a little self-mocking.

Val Kermode · 4.5 out of 5

A woman who lives in the shadow of her mother finds herself locking horns with her after her husband is killed.
Life Is Beautiful (1998)

Review preview for Life Is Beautiful

The line between laughter and tears is uncomfortably close.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5

A man treats a concentration camp as a game to protect his son.
The Skin I Live In (2011)

Review preview for The Skin I Live In

Almodóvar's trademark narrative divergence is in full effect but he keeps a delicious sense of control over his fabulously grotesque concoction.

David Graham · 3.5 out of 5

A brilliant but troubled plastic surgeon tries to create the perfect woman.