The Flower of My Secret
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Genre: World cinema, Romance Film, Romantic drama, Drama
Year: 1995
Country: Spain, France
Language: Spanish Language, French Language
Starring: Marisa Paredes, Chus Lampreave, Joaquín Cortés, Rossy de Palma, Kiti Manver, Imanol Arias, Gloria Muñoz, Juan Echanove, Carme Elias, Juan Jose Otegui, Manuela Vargas
The Flower of My Secret (Spanish: La flor de mi secreto) is a 1995 film by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar.
Marisa Paredes is Leocadia ("Leo") Macias, a woman writing “pink” romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across Spain. Unlike her romantic novels, her own love life is troubled. Leo has a less than happy relationship with her husband Paco (Imanol Arias), a military officer stationed in Brussels then later in Bosnia, who is distant both physically and emotionally. The film starts when Leo writes about the feeling of having lost her lover, a feeling which Leo compares with the pain of an uncomfortable pair of boots that she can't take off.
Leo begins to change the direction of her writing, wanting to focus more on darker themes such as pain and loss, and can no longer write her Amanda Gris novels, whose publishers demand sentimental happy-endings, at least until her contract is up.
She begins to re-evaluate her life through her relationship with her husband, her supposed best friend Betty, her "crab-faced" sister Rosa and her bickering elderly mother. She also meets Angel (Juan Echanove), a newspaper editor who quickly falls for Leo and her
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