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| Kika |
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  (4/10)
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Runtime: 100 |
| Public Rating: 10.00 (6 votes) |
Director: Pedro Almodovar |
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| Genre: Foreign/Comedy |
Year: 1993 |
| Writer(s): Pedro Almodovar |
| Reviewed by: Goatdog |
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I have heard lots of great things about the films of Pedro Almodovar. I have heard an equal number of bad things. I had never seen any of his films, barring a few fleeting minutes of Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down before my mother walked in and turned the TV off in disgust (I was 14!) So, I picked Kika. I am going to give him the benefit of the doubt, and rent others, but this was not a good introduction. It wasn't very good.
Kika (Veronica Forque) is a hairdresser who lives with Ramon (Alex Casanovas), a fashion photographer. She met him when his father, the American author Nicholas (Peter Coyote), thought he had died and called on Kika to prepare him for his funeral. She had been having an affair with Nicholas, but for some reason never explained by the film, she falls in love with Ramon and moves in with him, while having a secret affair with Nicholas. By this time, I got the impression that common sense and such things as logical cause and effect were going to be of no use to me.
Kika and Ramon have a live-in maid named Juana (Rossy de Palma) who has the hots for Kika. Her brother, a mentally handicapped porn star who is serving time in prison, escapes by disguising himself as a flagellant and leaving with a crowd of them. He comes to Kika's house, we discover that he and Juana have sex to tame his urges (unsuccessfully), he ties her up, and proceeds to rape Kika in an extended, almost unforgivable scene. It is supposed to be funny, I guess, but it is not. I was somewhat embarrassed to be watching it.
Meanwhile, a voyeur calls the police and reports the rape. The police show up, along with Andrea Scarface (Victoria Abril), a slimy TV show host who dresses in leather and happens to have suffered through a relationship with Ramon. How convenient. She has also hired Nicholas to write episodes of her show.
I won't bother summarizing any more, because it doesn't make much sense, and any summary of mine would not do justice to the painfully flat madcap comedy. The film does take a turn toward being a serial killer suspense film, but by then it's too late.
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