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Dark Habits (DVD)

Cristina Sßnchez Pascual (actor), Julieta Serrano (actor) and Pedro Almod=var (director)
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Synopsis

A Spanish nightclub singer, fearful that she will be blamed for her lover's drug overdose death, runs from the law. She stumbles onto an order of nutty nuns who could use her help fundraising and takes refuge there. But life in this convent might just be crazier than life on the streets.

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Review

Los Angeles Times, 07/06/1988, p.C8, "...PEDRO ALMODOVAR is a film maker with a talent for irreverence and outrage..."

New York Times, 05/06/1988, p.C28, "...You may find yourself muttering an amused amen."

Title Note

Filmed in Madrid, Spain.

Director Pedro Almodóvar appears briefly as a bus passenger.

Release Note

DVD Features:

Region 0
Keep Case
Anamorphic - 1.66
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus

Product Notes

This incredibly bizarre film by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar follows Yolanda (Cristina Sánchez Pascual), a heroin-dealing nightclub singer who hides out in a convent after a deal goes bad and she becomes wanted by both the law and rival gangs. The mother superior of the convent (Julieta Serrano) is a fan of Yolanda's singing and a lesbian heroin user, so before long she and Yolanda start shooting up together. Another of the nuns (Marisa Paredes) takes LSD and hallucinates encounters with Jesus; another (Chus Lampreave) writes trashy romance novels under a pseudonym. There's also a pet tiger in the garden and a dope-smoking priest. When the convent's main benefactor dies and his rich widow cuts off their contributions, the nuns get together to try to raise money to support their habits. Facing the closing of the convent and the arrival of the stoic, dour head mother, the crazed nuns throw a final party at which Yolanda sings a provocative song to her heartbroken mother superior. This gleefully blasphemous farce would make an interesting double bill with Whoopi Goldberg's SISTER ACT, which came out years later. Cecilia Roth (star of ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER) has a small role as one of the mother superior's former lovers.

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