Luna's vision of rural Spain is as witty and sexy as anything Almodovar has done in recent times. This superb farce centres around a beautiful young girl, her mother (a whore),and the machinations of her fiancee's mother. Sex, humour underwear and ham in equal measure! The finale is exqusite.
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LIFE IS SWEET (1991)
Certification15 Our Rating
Mike Leigh serves up another delicious slice of frighteningly real British family life. Alison Steadman is outstanding as the suburban mother of teenage twin daughters, one a plumber, the other a heavily depressed and anti-social bulimic. Stark, hilarious, tragic but ultimately uplifting. Brilliant British film making.
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LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE (1992)
Certification15 Our Rating
Tita's heart is broken when she is forbidden to marry the man she loves because of a family tradition. When her sister instead marries her lover her anger goes into her magical cooking. A wonderfully inventive and touching story, with superb visual flourishes - a beautiful, colourful fable..
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