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High Heels

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Based on 12 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Art/Independent | Drama | Foreign
Written by: Pedro Almodóvar (also story)
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 20, 1991
Running Time: 112 minutes, Color
Origin: Spain / France
Language(s): Spanish (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: R
Starring Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bosé, and Ana Lizaran
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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Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database Pedro Almodovar's Official Site
What The Critics Said
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Dave Kehr
It's an admirable attempt, though a less than completely successful one. The film's disappointments lie not so much in Almodovar's controlled, respectful direction as in the strange gaps and displacements of his screenplay, which never seems to supply the scenes we most want to see. [20 Dec 1991]
TV Guide Staff (Not Credited)
A stylish but disappointing spoof which lacks the satiric gusto of director Pedro Almodovar's earlier works.
Read Full Review >Empire Mat Snow
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.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Michael Wilmington
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]
USA Today Mike Clark
It's easier to take Hi-Heel Sneakers by Tommy Tucker- more seriously. [20 Dec 1991]
Boston Globe Jay Carr
Mostly it's Paredes' imperious - then surprisingly generous - high-handedness that carries High Heels. [20 Dec 1991]
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The story is stylishly filmed and acted with high spirits, but there's not much going on in many of its colorful shots.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
High Heels becomes mired in its own best intentions - primary colors and all.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Those who miss the wildness of his premainstream work will probably be only partially appeased.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Janet Maslin
High Heels has no real mirth and not even enough energy to keep it lively.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Hal Hinson
It feels more like a prosaic knockoff than a classically inspired original.
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