{"id":110,"date":"2006-09-30T11:36:48","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T15:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/110"},"modified":"2009-08-14T00:16:47","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T04:16:47","slug":"the-flower-of-my-secret-1995-almodovar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/110","title":{"rendered":"The Flower of My Secret (1995, Almodovar)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leo (Marisa Paredes, Huma in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/109\">All About My Mother<\/a><\/em>) is a 50-ish woman with major marital problems.  Her husband Paco (Imanol Arias) is always off on distant NATO missions and when he does return one time, it&#8217;s just for an hour to shower, fight with Leo, and announce that he&#8217;s leaving her for good.  He&#8217;s also having an affair with Leo&#8217;s best friend, psychologist Betty (Carmen Elias).  Leo&#8217;s mother fights constantly with Leo&#8217;s sister Rosa (Rossy de Palma, the one with the nose).  What&#8217;s more, Leo is secretly the hugely popular romance novelist Amanda Gris, and after interviewing for a newspaper column, the editor Angel (Juan Echanove) finds out.  Fortunately, he and Leo are perfect for each other, and he even ghost-ghost-writes a couple Amanda Gris novels while Leo&#8217;s getting back on her feet by taking care of her mother in their old village.  Oh also Leo&#8217;s maid Blanca stages a great flamenco show funded by a script that her son Antonio stole from Leo&#8217;s trashcan.  Very much an adult movie, with the usual motherhood themes and suicide attempts.  Not as wild and fun as the others&#8230; pretty grounded, for Almodovar.<\/p>\n<p>Opens the same way as <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/109\">All About My Mother<\/a><\/em>, with Betty taping a play-acted discussion at the hospital regarding organ donation after a patient has died.  Nobody dies in this one, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leo (Marisa Paredes, Huma in All About My Mother) is a 50-ish woman with major marital problems. Her husband Paco (Imanol Arias) is always off on distant NATO missions and when he does return one time, it&#8217;s just for an hour to shower, fight with Leo, and announce that he&#8217;s leaving her for good. He&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,633],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-pedro-almodovar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2953,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/2953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}