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High Heels

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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.

What The Critics Said

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75

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.

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75

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]

63

TV Guide Staff (Not Credited)

A stylish but disappointing spoof which lacks the satiric gusto of director Pedro Almodovar's earlier works.

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60

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.

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60

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]

50

USA Today Mike Clark

It's easier to take Hi-Heel Sneakers by Tommy Tucker- more seriously. [20 Dec 1991]

50

Boston Globe Jay Carr

Mostly it's Paredes' imperious - then surprisingly generous - high-handedness that carries High Heels. [20 Dec 1991]

50

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.

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50

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

High Heels becomes mired in its own best intentions - primary colors and all.

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50

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

Those who miss the wildness of his premainstream work will probably be only partially appeased.

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40

The New York Times Janet Maslin

High Heels has no real mirth and not even enough energy to keep it lively.

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40

Washington Post Hal Hinson

It feels more like a prosaic knockoff than a classically inspired original.

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What Our Users Said

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