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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Why this pick
Its candy-coloured Madrid, escalating romantic chaos and buoyant farce share Kika’s playful blend of melodrama, absurdity and wounded tenderness.
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MOVIE1993 1h 57m ESP
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A far darker, exquisitely designed Almodóvar puzzle, with Kika’s fascination for performance, bodies and unstable desire transformed into controlled psychological suspense.
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High Heels
Why this pick
Stylised colour, a television-world sheen and outsized female emotion make this an especially close match for Kika’s gleefully artificial melodramatic register.
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The Flower of My Secret
Why this pick
It retains Kika’s Madrid and emotional wit but trades broad provocation for a more bruised, intimate portrait of a woman whose public persona masks distress.
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The Last Circus
Why this pick
For Kika’s appetite for lurid spectacle and tonal audacity: a flamboyant Spanish nightmare-comedy where grotesque violence, desire and pop-coloured imagery collide.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Kika (Veronica Forqué), a naïve make-up artist, recalls how she met her lover Ramón (Alex Casanovas). She had given her phone number to his step-father, American writer Nicholas Pierce (Peter Coyote), and he had called her not for sex as she had hoped but to make up the younger man's corpse. He was however merely catatonic and suddenly awoke.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Rossy de Palma
Juana
Anabel Alonso
Amparo
Karra Elejalde
Policía
Blanca Li
Víctima del asesino
Joaquín Climent
Asesino
Verónica Forqué
Kika
Peter Coyote
Nicholas