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  • Starring: Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bosé, Victoria Abril
  • Summary: Rebecca (Abril) married her actress mother's (Paredes) first love. When he is murdered, they come to terms with their relationship with each other.
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  1. 75
    An Almodovar film is always an exercise in style, but High Heels also generates narrative energy and mystery, and provides what was, for me, a genuine surprise at the end.
  2. The best thing about High Heels are the performances - [Victoria Abril]'s tense, voracious daughter, Parades' star-turn mother, the sinister Bose, the arrogant Atkine - and the lucidity of Almodovar's narrative style, which by now seems as natural as breathing. [20 Dec 1991]
  3. Reviewed by: Mat Snow
    60
    We get a mother-daughter murder melodrama even more farfetched than the Joan Crawford classic, Mildred Pierce, on which this would appear to be loosely based.
  4. Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    50
    It's easier to take Hi-Heel Sneakers by Tommy Tucker- more seriously. [20 Dec 1991]

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