The Flower of My Secret
The Flower of My Secret Spanish La flor de mi secreto is a 1995 by Spanish director Pedro Almodvar. The film was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 68th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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. However, her publishers demand sentimental happy endings, at least until her contract is up. She begins to reevaluate her life through her relationship with her publishers, her husband, her best friend Betty Carme Elas, her crabfaced sister Rosa Rossy de Palma and her bickering elderly mother Chus Lampreave. Only her maid played by flamenco dancer Manuela Vargas appears steadfast. She also meets ngel Juan Echanove, a newspaper editor who quickly falls for Leo and her writing.After having signed a contract with the newspaper El Pas, Leo tells ngel that she cant write romances anymore, and that she has written a dark black novel about a young mother whose daughter kills her husband because he tried to rape her. After that, the corpse of the dead man is hidden in a refrigerator. Although Leo throws this story out, she later learns that someone is turning it into a movie. In fact, Almodvar himself created a movie based on this same plot, Volver, released eleven years later in 2006. ........
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