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Almodovar's `Kika' smacks of self-parody
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KIKA
Directed and written by: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Veronica Forque, Peter Coyote, Victoria Abril,
Alex Casanovas, Rossy De Palma, Anabel Alonso, Bibi
Andersen
Playing at: Nickelodeon, suburbs (in Spanish with
subtitles)
Unrated
Although he regularly finds himself in conflict with the MPAA
Ratings Board, it's becoming more and more difficult to think of
Pedro Almodovar as one of the great outragemeisters of ou...
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Reviews; Not Much Kick in `Kika'
The Washington Post
; Outrageous people never die. They just get old. In "Kika," director Pedro Almodovar indulges once again his penchant for Mediterranean-blooded, taboo-ridden bedroom farce. But the movie lacks the forbidden danger of the Spanish shockmeister's previous films. It's a glossified, cluttered parody of
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Almodovar The Extreme, Close Up;His Passions: Absurd Tales & Every Detail
The Washington Post
; ... Here's how Almodovar's mind works. He's sitting and watching the news as the anchorwoman tells of a local murder, and he thinks: "I ... translator in the corner of the television screen, signing the news for the deaf. He thinks: "I'd love this woman who's speaking ...
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Almodovar's Campy `Kika'
The Washington Post
; AS SOON AS you see the keyhole in the opening credits, you know that "Kika" is going to be about voyeurism, crime and comically voluptuous women. And you sense that it could only have been made by Pedro Almodovar. Trashy and melodramatic, hysterically, brazenly, luridly, zanily sex-obsessed, the
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Almodovar's `Kika' smacks of self-parody
The Boston Globe
; KIKA Directed and written by: Pedro Almodovar Starring: Veronica Forque, Peter Coyote, Victoria Abril, Alex Casanovas, Rossy De Palma, Anabel Alonso, Bibi Andersen Playing at: Nickelodeon, suburbs (in Spanish with subtitles) Unrated Although he regularly finds himself in conflict with the MPAA
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Pedro Almodovar's `Kika' - Sex Comedy, Murder Mystery
Morning Edition (NPR)
; ... Spanish movie have trouble duplicating its success in the United States. A review of Kika after headlines from Jean Cochran. [news headlines] [music] EDWARDS: Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's latest movie, Kika, is part murder mystery, part sex comedy, and ...
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ALL ABOUT ME; Pedro Almodovar goes deep in Bad Education
Boise Weekly
; As Pedro Almodovar eases into middle age, his films have lost some of their superficial, guilty pleasure flamboyance and become deeper and richer. The Almodovar of old, steeped in shock value, wild sex, campy bad behavior and carnival colors in Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! and Women on the Verge of a
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ALMODOVAR'S CINEMATIC EYE LEAVES NO ROOM FOR MAINSTREAM
The Boston Globe
; ... Church's reaction to his movie, he says, "I suppose they are angry. . . . [But] there's not been any reaction because there is news every day in the paper about children who were abused. Their position is just not to comment on it." Almodovar, who worked on ...
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`VIVA PEDRO' CELEBRATES THE FILMS OF ALMODOVAR
The Boston Globe
; Starting today, Sony Pictures Classics is spending the month of September rolling out eight of Pedro Almodovar's films in anticipation of the November release of "Volver," his 16th movie. "Viva Pedro" kicks off with 1988's "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," probably his best-known film in
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Pedro reigns in Spain: Almodovar still considered an icon.(filmmaker)(Focus: Madrid - special section)
Variety
; Madrid Pedro Almodovar, Spain's best-known post-Bunuel helmer, has been labeled spokesman for a generation, agent provocateur, screwball comic, style hero, media darling, professional sentimentalist and the king of kitsch. His comic vision has been exported to a multinational audience of devoted
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A filmmaker's progress.(Pedro Almodovar)(Book review)
The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
; Pedro Almodovar by Marvin D'Lugo University of Illinois Press, 176 pages, $19.95 FOR NEARLY A QUARTER of a century, Pedro Almodovar has been crafting films of increasing beauty and complexity. They are films that explore the political and cultural detritus of the Spanish psyche. Like all great art,
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