High Heels
High Heels is a 1991 melodrama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes and Miguel Bosé. The plot follows the fractured relationship between a self-involved mother, a famous torch singer, and her grown daughter she had abandoned as a child. The daughter, who works as a television newscaster, has married her mother's ex-lover and has befriended a female impersonator. A murder further complicates this web of relationships.
Plot
Rebeca waits anxiously at a Madrid airport for the return of her mother, Becky del Páramo, a famous torch singer, who is returning to Spain after a fifteen-year stay in Mexico. While waiting, Rebeca recalls incidents from her early life when her mother, preoccupied with her career and romantic life, neglected and rejected her.
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| author | Pedro Almodóvar |
|---|---|
| award | César Award for Best Foreign Film |
| contentLocation | Madrid |
| director | Pedro Almodóvar |
| editor | José Salcedo |
| genre | drama mystery |
| keywords | adolfo suarez madrid-barajas airport arrest autumn sonata coming home discover drag drag act even female impersonator femme fatale grieve hear heart attack high heels how to kill lethal woman madrid airport murder news broadcaster pass reject report social worker special interest talk television broadcast torch singer torch song wait win |
| musicBy | Ryuichi Sakamoto |
| nomination | International Submission to the Academy Awards |
| producer | Agustín Almodóvar |
| productionCompany | Ciby 2000 El Deseo TF1 Films Production |
| publisher | UGC PH Warner Española S.A. |
| recordedAt | Madrid |
| theme | melodrama |