The Flower of my Secret
Synopsis
Leo, under the pen name Amanda Gris, is Spain's queen of the romance novel. But at forty her failed marriage is wrecking her life. She has writer's block. Her husband, Paco, a NATO official, lives in Brussels. He takes this opportunity to leave her. This almost kills Léo. She decides to "commit suicide", artistically, by destroying her life's work, following her encounter with Angel, editor of the cultural section in "El Pais" and "fan" of Amanda Gris... Angel will become her friend.
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Actors (10)
Production and distribution (4)
- Co-production : Ciby 2000
- Foreign production company : El Deseo
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : Ciby Distribution
Full credits (10)
- Screenwriter : Pedro Almodóvar
- Director of Photography : Affonso Beato
- Music Composer : Alberto Iglesias
- Editor : José Salcedo
- Sound Recordist : Bernardo Menz
- Costume designer : Hugo Mezcua
- Foreign Producer : Agustín Almodóvar
- Production manager : Esther Garcia
- Press Attaché (film) : Jérôme Jouneaux
- Production Designers : Wolfgang Burmann, Miguel Lopez-Pelegrin
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Drama
- Production language : Spanish
- Coproducer countries : Spain, France
- Original French-language productions : No
- Nationality : Minority French (Spain, France)
- Production year : 1995
- French release : 27/09/1995
- Runtime : 1 h 42 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 87.398
- Visa issue date : 28/09/1995
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
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"This film marks a return to form to Pedro Almodovar. It contains a hidden autobiographical dimension, as in "The Law of Desire", nostalgia for the countryside, far from the loneliness and distress of the city, the underlying theme of "What Have I Done to Deserve This ?", and the capacity to create different facets of reality, as in "Tie Me Up ! Tie Me Down !". All this without forsaking the female comedy trademark that is carried off to perfection here by the magnificent Chus Lampreave and the unclassifiable Rossy de Palma. But "The Flower of My Secret" would be nothing without Marisa Paredes. The almost perfect identification that Almodovar had with Carmen Mora (...) has turned into total harmony with Marisa Paredes. Unlike Carmen, Marisa isn't Pedro's puppet but his defiant equal and it's this encounter that makes the film so perfect."
(Nuria Vidal - Journalist)
