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07/01/08
The Flower of My Secret (1996)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:19
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: THE FLOWER OF MY SECRET is a surprisingly restrained film (no drag queens, raunchy sex, or murders) from Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, and is considered one of his best. Romance novelist Leo... [More]
Reviews for The Flower of My Secret
Top CriticIf it isn't as successful as his very best work, neither is it a failure -- and there are certainly enough Alomodovarisms to bring a smile to anyone's face
10/04/06
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08/12/06
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01/26/06
Top CriticNo review available.
06/25/05
Dramatizes the contentious relationship between fiction and reality.
05/03/05
an archetypal romantic comedy that reshapes the mold
04/14/05
I found this dramatization a mature Almodovar work, perceptive and cutting through in an incisive way to the everyday problems in life that wear people down.
02/21/04
Though The Flower of My Secret is a slight work, it is a pleasing return to form.
05/20/03
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05/14/03
The movie is full of familiar Almodovar fare, but it feels freshened.
12/11/02
Top CriticDepicts the magical turnaround in the life of a writer of romance novels.
08/27/02
Seems to go in a dozen directions at once but ties up in the final reel into a tight, cohesive and enjoyable whole.
06/05/02
An intimate, beautifully wrought work, it reflects a new maturity in Almodovar's work and is one of his best pictures.
02/14/01
Top CriticAlmodovar has created a film that offers hope to all mad lovers who need it.
01/01/00
The film is attentive as well to the clichs that constitute reality and cinematic realism. It manages such complexities by highlighting Almodovar's own exceptional visual sensibility, which crosses over all kinds of boundaries.
01/01/00
It's a witty, intelligent scramble, and it's beautifully mounted.
01/01/00
It's bland as often as it is affecting, and presents little that's new or original.
01/01/00
If Leo appears to be doing some more or less orthodox movie-style suffering -- crying jags, a suicide attempt and the like -- perhaps that's just what she's supposed to be doing.
01/01/00
A ripe, entertaining soap opera.
01/01/00
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