High Heels

High Heels

  • Director: Pedro Almodóvar
  • Countries of origin: Spain, France
  • Language: Spanish
  • Release date: December 20, 1991
  • Sound mix: Dolby
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Tacones lejanos
  • "Tacones lejanos" is a romantic film directed by Pedro Almodóvar Caballero and starring Victoria Abril and Marisa Paredes . The film was released in Spain on October 23, 1991.
    The film tells the story of a love-hate relationship between a daughter and a mother.

    Details

    • Release date December 20, 1991
    • Filming locations Elche, Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
    • Production companies Canal+, CiBy 2000, El Deseo

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $1,710,057

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $74,103

    Gross worldwide

    $1,710,057

    Movie reviews

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    • By Shanon 2022-03-25 09:01:23

      love is a responsibility

      Rebecca's attachment to her mother as a child, wishing her mother to be free and happy. But Rebecca lives with her father when her mother realizes her dream. This made Rebeca's childhood slowly lose her mother's love, and made her feel that she was her mother's oil bottle. The child who gradually longed for mother's love began to have a trace of hatred for her mother, and this complex feeling expanded as she grew up. Competing silently with her mother, she wants to win the competition...

    • By Patsy 2022-03-25 09:01:23

      deep in my heart

      I'm my informant... this blast

      Anyway, this kind of family entanglement will eventually disintegrate because the cancer car accident is not cured.

      In the end, the reconciliation was completed by topping the bag for her daughter.

      This method seems to be more approachable, and it can be compared with the way of filming a seriously ill mother in "Rejuvenation". It is a kind of Europe, a kind of Hollywood. I don't know if it would be better to put "Scream and Whisper" in...

    • By Jana 2022-03-25 09:01:23

      Watching a movie in the mirror - before and after the screen

      My viewing is limited, my words are limited, a corner.

      When Rebeca looked in the mirror, she saw her mother instead of herself. Mother is who she wants to be, so shining, so radiant. When you become the other in your heart, you become yourself. When the returning mother gave a concert again, the lights came from her back, and she was doomed to cry with her back, because she finally had to face behind her: those things that were lost because of it, those eyes that were not understood...

    • By Damaris 2022-03-24 09:03:49

      A special kind of mother-daughter love

      A special kind of Oedipus. A love affair with a triple personality judge. A spiritual dominance.


      There are no male and female protagonists of Almodovar in this movie.
      But he still made a subtle and magical portrayal of female psychology, and he is good at portraying the female emotions that have been left behind.
      The color of each frame is very strong, and the color of black and hemp is not found, and the use of red is super beautiful.
      I didn't like red very much...

    • By Roger 2022-03-24 09:03:49

      Psychological damage caused by mother to daughter

      A very deep, memorable good movie! My mother has become alienated in her pursuit of the so-called career. High heels are the symbol of this career. They are more sought after by everyone and impressed by others. She has been busy all her life and put all her pursuits here. When I saw her wrinkled back twisting, I felt inexplicably nauseated.
      The mother's pursuit of 'career' caused serious psychological damage to her daughter. The daughter's psychology has been distorted, and her lifelong...

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    • By Abelardo 2023-07-30 23:04:53

      The peculiar mother-daughter relationship, the performance of my mother is really heart-wrenching, an old woman who is often...

    • By Damion 2023-06-29 19:33:48

      Almodovar has never let me down, not even...

    • By Cora 2023-06-22 19:02:59

      Disappointing...

    • By Corene 2023-02-17 11:45:55

      One of Almodovar's...

    • By Elsie 2022-09-23 10:53:35

      The original soundtrack I listened to when I was in college, played by Ryuichi Sakamoto, I like it very much. The movie is...

    Movie plot

    A daughter, a mother, love and hate lingering for fifteen years. Her mother ( Marisa Paredes ) was originally a popular singer in Spain. For her career, she left her 13-year-old daughter to go abroad. After 15 years, her mother returned to Spain and found that her daughter ( Victoria Abril ) was married to a former partner. He has an affair with the reporter, and a delicate triangle relationship begins. A month later, the daughter's...
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    Evaluation action

    The director uses the image of "high heels" to construct a world full of desire   . (People's Net Review)
    From confrontation to reconciliation between mother and daughter in the film, the flowing family affection is touching, and the imperfect female image builds the sensitive and tenacious inner world of women. The extremely modern graphics and freewheeling colors complement the bizarre and chaotic plots and deviant characters in the...
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    Movie quotes

    • Becky del Páramo: My daughter, Do you hate me?

      Rebeca: No , I love you very much mother.

      Becky del Páramo: I was afraid you hated me.

      Rebeca: I hated you sometimes, but even on those times I never stop loving you.

    • Becky del Páramo: [during Interrogation] You don't kill a daughter's husband two days before your theatrical debut!

    • Rebeca: [announcing her husband's murder on the television news] According to the autopsy, the victim had had sexual relations shortly before he died. I can only add it was not with me.