The Flower of My Secret

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The Flower of My Secret
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Produced by Agustín Almodóvar,
Esther García
Written by Pedro Almodóvar
Starring Marisa Paredes,
Juan Echanove,
Rossy de Palma,
Chus Lampreave,
Joaquín Cortés
Running time 102 min
Language Spanish
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The Flower of My Secret or La flor de mi secreto (original Spanish title) is a 1995 film by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar.

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Marisa Paredes is Leocadia ("Leo") Macias, a woman writing “pink” romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across Spain. Unlike her romantic novels, her own love life is troubled. Leo has a less than happy relationship with her husband Paco, a military officer stationed in Brussels then later in Bosnia, who is distant both physically and emotionally.

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, whose publishers demand sentimental happy-endings, at least until her contract is up. She begins to reevaluate her life through her relationship with her husband, her supposedly best friend Betty, her "crab-faced" sister Rosa and her bickering elderly mother. She also meets Angel, a newspaper editor who quickly falls for Leo and her writing.

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Films directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980) • Labyrinth of Passion (1982) • Dark Habits (1983) • What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) • Matador (1986) • Law of Desire (1987) • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) • Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990) • High Heels (1991) • Kika (1993) • The Flower of My Secret (1995) • Live Flesh (1997) • All About My Mother (1999) • Talk to Her (2002) • Bad Education (2004) • Volver (2006)
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