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To me, this movie is perfection.

So much average

Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Almodóvar presents us with a very original story filled with eccentric characters, lots of sex and the right amount of suspense. The best thing about this film is definitely the script, which slowly unravels the mystery of Vera's character while exploring the rest of the cast in a nonlinear fashion. Antonio Banderas and Vera Cruz are both great, and the cinematography is also chosen with care. The climax might be where the film is weakest, as the decision Vera takes is too important to be motivated just because of a newspaper. The last scene, however, gives the film its heart and makes me wonder if it would have been a stronger film if it had had Vera as a clear protagonist from the start.

An absolute must see intriguing thriller. Genuinely unsettling at times but impossible to look away. Antonio Banderas gets to show us how well he can tackle a disturbing and dramatic role. You'll be so immersed in the story and it's hypnotic visuals that you won't even notice that it's in Spanish

Look at a film. ANY film on IMDb. You'll find the first 50 revies drop names left and right. Theyll talk about when they worked for so and so. Theyll use words like "misunderstood genius" "masterpiece" etc. badly written hype. If you read the reviews of this film it OOZES with "hello i was paid/want a job/was given a job by x"... Please stop. It doesn't work and makes those of us with an iq over 12 not want to see your garbage. Ill watch a movie with "loved it .. hated it... blablabla" over "a generational masterpiece" every day. All day.

What exactly is plastic surgeon Dr. Robert Ledgard(Banderas, brilliant, obsessed) working on in the top-level facility in his home? And who is his subject?I haven't read the book, or watched much else by Almodóvar. This is about fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, identity, how do we define ourselves and who we are. Like a lot of genre fiction, this explores the things men do to women. To their bodies. Claiming to do it out of love. Even specifically of that girl. Then why do they fight through her protests? Even complain at them? Say she should be happy about it? Take advantage of her trusting nature? Justify, excuse, but not apologize for, what they're doing to them? "There's some sex in all violence, and vice versa", Cronenberg is quoted as saying in 2005. If not for when it came out, this film could easily be the main reason for him saying it.There's a huge exposition dump a quarter into this, with one bit after another of backstory. It's literally one person telling all this to another. The revelations are powerful, and couldn't have been done much smoother or such, but it does stop the pace dead for a little while. And almost halfway through, it jumps chronologically. I'm not sure it could have been done very differently. Still. It does have an effect. It's disorienting. A few story elements come off as sloppy and convenient, albeit they do clearly fit. Maybe one or two more drafts would have ironed out these problems.This has a lot of deeply disturbing content: not everyone will be able to handle the material. The running time is 115 and a half minutes with end credits, or 109 without. My DVD had no special features, only subtitles. I recommend it to any fan of horror-sci-fi. 8/10