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Kika (1993)
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Kika (1993)
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Retratos Pinturas Acrílicos Actrices..... Por Miguel Angel Vesco
Silvana Mangano, Carmen Maura, Raffaella Carrá, Sissy Spacek, Vanessa Redgrave, Margit Carstensen, Liv Ullmann, Verónica Forqué, Graciela Dufau, Graciela Borges, Gena Rowlands, Catherine Deneuve, Mariangela Melato, Jill Clayburgh, Fanny Ardant.
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«the last image that will disappear from my mind will be this house, in the middle of nowhere, with all four of us inside.»
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365 Day Movie Challenge (2019) - #157: Kika (1993) - dir. Pedro Almodóvar
It had to happen eventually: I’ve found a film by Pedro Almodóvar that I don’t love. Kika bursts with color and comedy, just like so many other films by the director, but there are enough problems with the story that it didn’t sit well with me. Verónica Forqué is perfectly cast as the title character, a baby-voiced cosmetologist who falls headfirst into a bizarre love triangle between American novelist Nicholas (Peter Coyote) and his Madrid-raised son Ramón (Àlex Casanovas), but the plot goes totally off the rails as it veers madly between murder, rape, incest, voyeurism and a subplot concerning a crime-reenactment TV show hosted by a former psychologist named Andrea Caracortada (which means “scarface”) (Victoria Abril). There is an abundance of unpleasantness as Andrea tries to gather evidence that Nicholas killed Ramón‘s mother years earlier, lesbian housekeeper Juana (Rossy de Palma) attempts to prevent her brother Pablo (Santiago Lajusticia) from raping Kika by throwing herself at him instead - unsuccessfully so... and the subsequent, way-too-long assault is played for laughs - and poor Kika is caught in the middle of all this.
Despite my complaints, try not to be weirded out when I say that certain aspects of the film are good, primarily the performances by the three lead actresses, the costumes designed by José María de Cossío in collaboration with none other than Gianni Versace, and assorted details like Almodóvar’s usage of the Bernard Herrmann Psycho score in the background of a scene. I flat-out loved seeing Pedro Almodóvar’s mother, Francisca Caballero, as the host of a literary criticism show; speaking in affectless yet charmingly straightforward tone of voice, she insists on doing interviews even though she refuses to read the books. (Supplemental material of a similar nature: if you’ve seen Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Cabellero has a small role as Victoria Abril’s mother.) Kika also marks the last of the four appearances that Bibiana Fernández made in Almodóvar‘s films; I wonder if she regarded her nude scene in this film (bold but superfluous to the plot) as exploitative. Kika might be best remembered for its satirical look at true-crime reality TV as an extreme form of grotesque spectacle, foreseeing the rising popularity of such shows in the 21st century, but otherwise the film may only be of merit to Almodóvar superfans.
Kika (1993)
Kika (1993)