1980 · comedy · spanish
Pepi, Luci, Bom
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar1h 22m1980
After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of outrageous punk friends.
Our read: Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · spanish entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / spanish, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- brisk
- inventive
- intimate
- funny
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