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Jewel 2022-04-11 09:01:07
[Film Review] The Flower of My Secret (1995) 7.2/10
As a successful romantic novelist, Leo Macías (Paredes) lives on an easy street of Madrid, but middle-age crisis starts kicking in, the relationship with her husband Paco (Arias), a military officer who goes out of his way to be stationed in foreign countries (a typical cop-out move of the guilty...
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Iliana 2022-04-11 09:01:07
When a woman is not a woman, you can get rid of the pain caused by men
When they parted, Leo refused Angel's invitation, she could finally try, stay at home, "sola", she no longer needed to dilute the pain caused by another man in the arms of one man.
Leo's neurotic mother said: A woman, whether it is a divorce or a dead man, should go back to her parents' home...
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Margret 2022-04-13 09:01:06
Almodovar's "secular melodrama" is still a female theme that Ashi is familiar with. The dog's blood is warm, the weak is strong, anxiety and hope are also placed on it. Almodovar's female characters are full of brilliance.
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Colt 2022-04-14 09:01:07
Almodovar is always admirable and amazed. If his script is made by a second or third-rate director, it will be a hypocritical and even a bit vulgar story, but in a few words, it is difficult to summarize what magic he used to make the whole story shine. Hui. Those Spanish-style psychedelics and warmth, no matter how many seemingly crazy coats are wrapped, can hardly hide their brilliance. Those women are immortalized in Almodóvar's films.
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The Flower of My Secret quotes
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Ángel: Do you specialize in a genre?
Leo Macías: No. I prefer to write about what I like and avoid Spanish literature.
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Ángel: What writers do you like?
Leo Macías: Mainly women. Adventurous, suicidal, lunatics like Djuna Barnes, Jane Bowles, Dorthy Parker, Jean Rhys, Flannery O'Connor, Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Isak Dinesen, Janet Frame. I write about them in my article, "Pain and Life".
