Almodóvar’s only collaboration with musical superstar Miguel Bosé, who plays the gregarious drag queen Femme Letal, High Heels invokes mystery and melodrama to explore the fraught relationships between mothers and daughters. Renowned celebrity Becky del Paramo (Marisa Paredes) returns to Madrid to discover that her daughter Rebeca (Victoria Abril) has married one of her old lovers, Manuel. When he is found dead, the women are the main suspects.

DIRECTOR: Pedro Almodóvar. WRITTEN BY: Pedro Almodóvar. CAST: Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bosé, Anna Lizaran. 1991. 112 min. Spain/France. Color. Spanish. DCP. Courtesy of El Deseo.

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Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.