Description
Pedro Alomod³var made this misfired, rambling comedy about a romance novelist (Marisa Paredes) whose crumbling marriage has left her depressed and unable to work. At a low point, she writes a scathing indictment of her own books (which are penned under another name), with no one realizing critic and author are one and the same. Almod³var (
Law of Desire) has the start of a great idea here, and for once, he's direct about his sympathy for a character. But nothing else about
The Flower of My Secret is so clear. Despite its unusual allegiance to the straightforward "women's films" of the 1950s, this movie blows it by becoming needlessly complicated over extraneous junk, forcing one to grope in the dark for Almod³var's point.
--Tom Keogh Please note this DVD may be Region 1 and will only play on the appropriate DVD players