High heels (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | high heels |
| Original title | Tacones lejanos |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pedro Almodovar |
| script | Pedro Almodovar |
| production | Agustín Almodovar |
| music | Ryuichi Sakamoto |
| camera | Alfredo F. Mayo |
| cut | José Salcedo |
| occupation | |
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High Heels (Original title: Tacones lejanos ), also known as High Heels - A Woman's Arms , is a Spanish melodrama from 1991. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar , who also wrote the screenplay. The main roles were played by Victoria Abril and Marisa Paredes .
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Rebeca's childhood is anything but idyllic. She is drawn to her selfish and self-centered mother, Becky del Páramo, while her tyrannical stepfather rejects her completely. One day Rebeca learns that he wants to prevent her mother from accepting an offer in Mexico as a singer. Rebeca secretly swaps the stepfather's stimulants for his sleeping pills to help her mother. Shortly afterwards, probably asleep, he drives his car into a tree and dies. Freed from her husband, Becky takes a lover named Manuel, but then leaves him and her daughter Rebeca back in Spain to pursue a career in America.
15 years later, Becky, now famous, returns to Spain, where she is expected by the now grown-up Rebeca at the airport. She learns that Rebeca and Manuel have married and is beside herself. Rebeca persuades her mother to visit her home anyway, from where all three go to a travesty with the star "Femme Letal", who is a perfect impersonator of her mother. Rebeca visits the artist in his dressing room and he confesses to Rebeca that he is madly in love with her. They have sex while their mother and Manuel wait unsuspecting in the auditorium.
A few days later, Manuel was shot dead in his apartment. There are three main suspects who were the last to see Manuel: Rebeca's TV colleague, who was Manuel's lover and had slept with him shortly before his death, Rebeca's mother Becky and Rebeca herself. All three deny the fact. But on the day of the funeral, Rebeca publicly confesses the murder on her TV show and is taken to prison. Then she revokes her confession before the examining magistrate, but becomes entangled in contradictions. The murder weapon cannot be found, the evidence is uncertain. In prison, Rebeca learns that she is pregnant. Shortly thereafter, at the instigation of the examining magistrate, she was released, who soon after turned out to be identical to the travesty artist Femme Letal, the father of her child.
Becky found out in Rebeca prison that she had made her career possible by swapping the tablets. She has a heart attack on stage. In the intensive care unit, she learns from Rebeca that she also killed Antonio and decides to take on Rebeca's second murder. On her deathbed, Rebeca hands her the murder weapon so that Becky's fingerprints turn it into evidence. Becky makes her false confession, but immediately confesses this to the pastor, who denies her absolution because of it.
Becky gives her daughter the opportunity to lead a “normal” life in freedom with impunity, and in this way proves that she loves Rebeca.
reception
The film was released in Spanish cinemas on October 23, 1991, grossing 870,728,432 pesetas . The German theatrical release was March 12, 1992. Later it was also released on video and DVD . In the United States, where the film opened on 20 December 1992, which was grossing 1.71 million US dollars .
Reviews
The magazine VideoWoche wrote that Pedro Almodóvar, "the master of brightly colored, multi-layered and abysmal characters", presented "the story of a mother-daughter conflict". The love-hate relationship between mother and daughter takes place in the “usual shrill ambience of the big city” that is typical for Almodóvar.
The renowned American film critic Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times that high heels are a film full of colors and life. Although this was "stupid", Ebert enjoyed the film, "an ironic, incredibly happy melodrama". Ebert said that Almodóvar could have been influenced by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Douglas Sirk and the actresses by Joan Crawford and Bette Davis .
Awards
The film was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 1992 , but had to admit defeat to the German film Hitlerjunge Salomon by Agnieszka Holland . The French film award César won high heels as Best Foreign Film .
The film was nominated for the Goya , the most important Spanish film award, in the categories of Best Costumes , Best Editing , Best Mask , Best Sound and Best Supporting Actress ( Cristina Marcos ), but could not convert any of the nominations into prizes. Marisa Paredes won the Spanish Actors Union Prize for Best Acting in a Feature Film . She also received the Sant Jordi Award and Acting Awards at the Gramado Film Festival and Cartagena Film Festival . The film was also awarded for Best Film at the Cartagena Film Festival and for Best Director and Best Music at the Gramado Film Festival .
Web links
- High Heels in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for high heels . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2005 (PDF; test number: 67 421 V / DVD).
- ↑ https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/high-heels-1991