The Flower of My Secret

1995
7.3
The Flower of My Secret
Poster The Flower of My Secret

Title: The Flower of My Secret

Original Title: La flor de mi secreto

Year: 1995

Info

Release Dates

  • UK: January 26 1996
  • United States: March 08 1996

Plot

Pedro Almodóvar writes and directs this dramatic comedy which is about Leo Macias (Marisa Paredes), a romance novels writer who does this job under Amanda Gris pseudonym. However, despite being forced by contract to finish three of these novels a year, she has been unable to do it since months ago, when she had a crisis with her ??husband Paco (Imanol Arias), a military man who spends much time away from home, and now she is only able to write crime novels. So, after a meeting with her agents, she decides to break up the contract, but she needs the money, so she will move closer Angel (Juan Echanove), Betty's friend in search of a job in his paper. Meanwhile, Leo is centered on writing the story of a young mother with a daughter who kills his father .

Cast

Director:

Pedro Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar

Trivia

'The flower of my secret' was nominated to seven Goya Awards, including Best actress and Best director, but it didn't win anyone.

When Leo first meets Angel in his office, she lists a number of female writers who inspire her, one of these is Dorothy Parker. Later on in the movie Leo is visited by Paco on what is supposed to be a 24 hour leave, however it turns out to only be 2 hours. This is the basic plot line of the Dorothy Parker story 'The Lovely Leave'.

Leo (Marisa Paredes) talks about story lines for her books, one of these is about a girl who kills her father after he tries to rape her and then along with her mother hides the body in a restaurant freezer. This is the basic plot of Volver (2006), one of Almodóvar's later films.

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