What Have I Done To Deserve This? (1984)

16 out of 17 people found the following review helpful:

amazing

Ben Rose from Puebla, Mexico, 8th January, 2005

this will not be a large review, just a little message to say you have to rent this movie. If you love early Pedro, Woman on a verge of a nervous breakdown, Pepi, luci y bom y otras historias del monton, then you are going to love this. It has more to offer than those above, or matador, and it is genuinly funny which is something that a lot of times is very hard to translate. It deals with the sexy carmen and her disfuncial family..the hsuband who is wanted to write hitlers letters, a son who has a gift of copying signatures, another son who pimps himself off to friends fathers and finally the dentist, the grandma and the iguana, the mother who?s had enough and the prostitute neighbour...Pure genius

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12 out of 14 people found the following review helpful:

Camp, amoral and outrageous

'Nostromo' from Reading, 9th March, 2005

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. There?s no director like Almodovar and this vomit stained satire on morality and Spanish family life is one of his best and funniest films. The incomparable Carmen Maura plays a down-trodden housewife living with her obnoxious pig of a husband and disintegrating extended family in a Madrid tower block. The comedy is black, the wall-paper is just nasty and the prostitute who lives next door keeps on popping round for bondage gear. I first saw this film several years ago and it?s a long standing favourite, well overdue on DVD. Rent this classic and watch it with your Mum.

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10 out of 10 people found the following review helpful:

Interesting film

NickAxford from from Sheffield, 26th October, 2004

I had little idea what to expect before watching this film. I'd seen a review in a magazine and it was one of the ones I'd added on a whim. I'm glad I did, it was quite intriguing. With the sort of jet black humour you expect from Almaldovar, this film was a clever one with great performances, particularly from Chuz Lampreve as the senile grandma.

It might not be to everyone's tastes (references to homosexual peadophilia spring to mind) but this was a challenging film. However, there are down points. The film seems illogical at places and you are left wondering why Gloria allowed the situation to degenerate over such a long period of time.

But these small moans aside, this film is one that is definitely worth a watch. Recommended.

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11 out of 17 people found the following review helpful:

Madrilenians

www.bookshistorical.com from Aberlour, Scotland, 20th January, 2006

I have lived in Madrid in the very same style of housing depicted in this film, with the same unreliable lift although not with the same taste in 1970's wallpaper and can imagine the different types of people as in this film. As in other Almodovar movies this one has the same quirky characters who would be more at home in celebrity big brother household, however, they are appealing and keep you tied to the screen as you are desperate to find out what happens to them in this black comedy. The flat is cramped and clostraphobic as 3 generations of the same family live there, with the mother trying to survive on the little money coming into the household and the stingy although funny Grandmother longing to go back to her old village. Maybe this is not the funniest of Almodovar films but it is worth seeing.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

almodovar

A Customer from Loughborough, 28th August, 2008

not his best, a bit long

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2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Fragmented film

A Customer from Wellington, 5th April, 2008

Too many ideas, that do not seem to gel. Didn't like the film.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

What Have I Done To Deserve This?

A Customer from Dunfermline, 27th March, 2008

Centres around the life of a cleaner who seems to live in a very gritty world. It was a bit eccentric. Really good acting all round as you really felt as though you had just walked into the middle of this familes life.

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5 out of 6 people found the following review helpful:

What have i done to deserve this

amberman from , 2nd January, 2008

A film i very disapointment to watch

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