What Have I Done to Deserve This
Chazen Museum of Art 750 University Ave., Madison, Wisconsin 53706
press release: WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS? (¿QUE HE HECHO YO PARA
MERECER ESTO?)
Spain | 1984 | 16mm | 101 min. | Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Pedro Almodóvar; Cast: Carmen Maura, Luis Hostalot, Ryu Hiroma
The great Maura stars as a pill-popping cleaning lady whose home life has spun hilariously out of control in characteristically Almodóvarian fashion. She’s crammed into a Madrid apartment with her dimly chauvinist husband and two dubiously entrepreneurial sons (one’s selling drugs, the other’s selling his body) under the scolding eye of her mother-in-law, with a prostitute and a telekinetic for neighbors. Add in her affair with an impotent cop and someone’s bound to be bumped off via a method nodding to Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter.” Print courtesy of the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research.
Sunday Cinematheque at the Chazen: The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar
For our Fall Sunday afternoon series at the Chazen Museum of Art, we will screen the beautiful and influential work of contemporary Spanish cinema’s best-known filmmaker, Pedro Almodóvar. A veritable industry onto himself, Almodóvar, as a writer, producer and director, has carved out a substantial slice of the international moviegoing audience for his classically told tales of offbeat lives and offbeat love. Almodóvar is an artist who does not hide his cinematic influences but every aspect of his work – from production design to storytelling techniques - always feels decidedly personal.
All Cinematheque screenings are free and open to the public.