At the time cited as his most controversial film,  Kika  follows the titular character (the marvelous Verónica Forqué), a beautician who is such a charming chatterbox she is (literally) able to raise the dead. When she marries the much younger son of her former lover, the fates intervene to upend their happiness. Reflecting on sexual violence, the media, and the paradoxes of desire, Kika features Almodóvar regulars Victoria Abril and Rossy de Palma.