What Have I Done to Deserve This?
What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Almodóvar’s darkly comedic feature What Have I Done to Deserve This? depicts a woman at odds with familial and societal expectations. Pill-popping Gloria (Carmen Maura) lives in a tiny Madrid apartment with her husband, their two sons, and her mother-in-law. Despite their economic woes, her abusive husband will not allow her to look for work.
Almodóvar’s darkly comedic feature What Have I Done to Deserve This? depicts a woman at odds with familial and societal expectations. Pill-popping Gloria (Carmen Maura) lives in a tiny Madrid apartment with her husband, their two sons, and her mother-in-law. Despite their economic woes, her abusive husband will not allow her to look for work. But her world is enlivened by eccentric neighbors and a bright green lizard (who also happens to be the only witness to a murder).
DIRECTOR: Pedro Almodóvar. WRITTEN BY: Pedro Almodóvar. CAST: Carmen Maura, Luis Hostalot, Gonzalo Suárez, Ángel de Andrés-López. 1984. 101 min. Spain. Color. Spanish. DCP. Courtesy of El Deseo.
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Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
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