I saw this spanish film at the MAMI festival in Mumbai, just to see what was this overhyped film all about. There were lots of my friends who had seen the film before and I was kind of getting mixed response for the same. And when I finally saw the film, the first thing that came to my mind while the film entered the last act was that it has a serious twist resembling to China town. Something, which I, being in the business of writing, guessed it long time ago. Well that took away some of the excitement, but yes this dark, funny, tragic, fantasy, supernatural film has its moments which makes you laugh more than freezez you or for that matter makes you ponder over it.
Well that doesn't take the credit away from the film and from its director,Pedro Almodóvar,
for effectively creating one of the priceless relationships in the whole world, mother- daughter.
The relationship traces the two generation of people, Penelope and her mother and Penelope and her daughter. Also, Almodovor has managed to effectively create the supernatural stories which the village La mancha survives on. Penelope didnot have a great relationship with her mother.Since early childhood whe developed her own mind and became independent. Her mother and father died in a fire. Now she lived with her husband and her daughter. She struggles and fights to survive like every other person inhabiting the planet.
In a sudden twist, her husband is being killed by her own daughter. Penelope is ready to take the blame on herself.
The story then gazez towards her freezing the body in a restaurant and taking care of some catering work there. In the meantime her mothers ghost comes back[ which according to the local villagers is nothing new, ghosts keep roaming around every now and then] the ghost starts staying with Penelope's sister, running a salon in her house. With time the ghost becomes friendly to Pene's daughter too but is scared of Pene herself. Ultimately the last card is opened which says that the daughter of Rai was born out of her own father, [chinatown angle] So thats that. They are some good moments in the film..... where Penelope remembers her mother a lot without realising that she could be around...
So as a film buff, if I was to review the film I would say, 2.5 out of 5.
Well that doesn't take the credit away from the film and from its director,Pedro Almodóvar,
for effectively creating one of the priceless relationships in the whole world, mother- daughter.
The relationship traces the two generation of people, Penelope and her mother and Penelope and her daughter. Also, Almodovor has managed to effectively create the supernatural stories which the village La mancha survives on. Penelope didnot have a great relationship with her mother.Since early childhood whe developed her own mind and became independent. Her mother and father died in a fire. Now she lived with her husband and her daughter. She struggles and fights to survive like every other person inhabiting the planet.
In a sudden twist, her husband is being killed by her own daughter. Penelope is ready to take the blame on herself.
The story then gazez towards her freezing the body in a restaurant and taking care of some catering work there. In the meantime her mothers ghost comes back[ which according to the local villagers is nothing new, ghosts keep roaming around every now and then] the ghost starts staying with Penelope's sister, running a salon in her house. With time the ghost becomes friendly to Pene's daughter too but is scared of Pene herself. Ultimately the last card is opened which says that the daughter of Rai was born out of her own father, [chinatown angle] So thats that. They are some good moments in the film..... where Penelope remembers her mother a lot without realising that she could be around...
So as a film buff, if I was to review the film I would say, 2.5 out of 5.
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