1983 · comedy · drama · satire
Dark Habits
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar1h 40m1983
After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.
Our read: Dark Habits (1983) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · drama · satire entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- brisk
- inventive
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