What Have I Done to Deserve This?

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

  • Director: Pedro Almodóvar
  • Countries of origin: Spain
  • Language: Spanish, German, English, French
  • Release date: March 30, 1985
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1
  • Also known as: ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?
  • "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" is a feature film directed by Pedro Almodóvar Caballero and starring Carmen Maura . The film was released in Spain on October 25, 1984.
    The film tells the story of housewife Gloria witnessing her family being divided   .

    Details

    • Release date March 30, 1985
    • Filming locations Berlin, Germany
    • Production companies Kaktus Producciones Cinematográficas, Tesauro

    Movie reviews

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    • By Karson 2022-12-24 00:21:32

      people.

      Perhaps the most independent and commendable in the whole movie are the eldest and second sons of the heroine.
      The eldest son resells drugs, buys them from others, mixes them with his mother's pills and grinds them into powder to make money by selling them. Another unique skill is to imitate other people's handwriting.
      He asked his grandmother, Balzac, Goethe, Byron, and others whether they were realist or romantic writers. It is normal to say one wrong, and the cup was that five or...

    • By Carmine 2022-12-11 19:26:09

      The appearance of scene and rationality in a scene

      The film begins with a disharmonious film crew and enters a world of drama. The exaggerated expressions of the actors and the plausible lines are mixed in the highly connotative scenes, turning into an absurd but unable to tell the absurdity. Large-scale life stage play.

      1. Scenes, performances and lines.

      The scene in the movie is not used as a base for the rationality of the story, but as one of the narrative elements that cannot be missing. This should be a legacy of...

    • By Ford 2022-11-16 13:24:18

      Minority care

      Almodovar, I told many people that I would like him because it was destined.
      I always believe in destined love, this kind of thing.
      I watched his four movies "Return", "Bad Education", "Speaking to Her", and "Why Should I Fate That" I want to talk about today.
      Almodovar’s care for disadvantaged groups, women, homosexuality, incest, transvestism, the oppression of the masculine society on the feminine society, the curse of the patriarchy on the mother’s rights, all the sufferings...

    • By Demarcus 2022-11-02 09:31:17

      Director said

      "Why should I be so fate" is Almodóvar's fourth work, and it is also the key to his show of talent, establishment of style and success.

      Looking at Almodovar's films, it can be seen that he does not reflect on the past or look to the future, but instead looks directly at the reality of his life. He puts his focus on today's Spain, he unscrupulously reveals the people and things around him, reflecting their emotions and desires. It is precisely because his films blend with the living...

    • By Joesph 2022-10-12 08:58:43

      Erotic housewife

      In Almodovar's early films, his mature use of lens color has already been shown in his films. As far as I know, there are two directors who have exquisitely used lens colors. Almodovar is one of them, and the second is Zhang Yimou. And these two people love to be full of "red" in their films.
       
      In the film 23 years ago, the protagonist of the story was a housewife who worked hard for the family. And the group of "crazy housewives" in the American TV series have so many acquaintances,...

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    • By Bailee 2023-09-21 14:15:40

      Almodóvar's portrayal of women is absolutely second to...

    • By Dahlia 2023-09-17 17:59:01

      Almodovar is really a pioneer and a model of the daily life of strange feelings. He has created an image of a magical heroine that he has never seen before. Various "crimes" are desperate and inexplicably...

    • By Una 2023-08-26 20:55:21

      Strong colors, tragic...

    • By Breana 2023-08-17 01:02:10

      A dirge of a married, mother...

    • By Wendy 2023-07-31 22:32:18

      Almodovar's world is so crazy, incest, prostitutes, drug addiction, child molestation, and selling sons have become as normal trivial things as eating and sleeping; the whole film is full of absurdity and irony, but the ending is real and sad. Suddenly realized that what I was watching was not a drama, just ordinary...

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    Almodóvar’s early social realism films are said to be comedies, but they have a heavy sense of sadness. The director puts the core of the story on this ordinary woman and examines society through her perspective, indicating that Almodóvar has begun to use women as the main body of his films. The film uses red and green as the keynote. Of course, the director's gatekeeping skills such as sex scenes are not lacking, and the appearance of...
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    Movie quotes

    • Cristal: Will you come back?

      Lucas Villalba: I don't know.

      Cristal: If you don't, I'll tell your wife.

      Lucas Villalba: You don't know her! She's a witch!

      Cristal: I just wanted to excite you, I wouldn't do that.

    • Cristal: The sooner you learn about what life is about, the better. Here. If you need something else, just ask. Better start with me than any slut.

    • Toni: If you screw my brother, I'll give you a line.

      Cristal: How big?

      Toni: A fiver.

      Cristal: Really? I'll try, then.