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Mood:
- HumorousOffbeatSexualSexy
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Plot:
- Gays and LesbiansDangerous AttractionInfidelitySexual RelationsMind and SoulCouplesJournalismLove Triangle more...
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Genres:
- ComedyForeignPostmodernism
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Time/Period:
- 90s
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Place:
- EuropeSpain
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Humor:
- Dark HumorIrreverent Humor
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Style:
- Campy
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousRealistic
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Kika, 1993
Spanish
Spain, France
Profile of Kika
The mood of Kika is sexual, offbeat, and humorous. The plot centers around a dangerous attraction, gays and lesbians, and infidelity. It features dark humor and irreverent humor. Kika is a foreign and comedy movie. Stylistically, it is postmodernist and campy humor. In approach, it is realistic. Kika is set in Spain. It happens in the 1990s.
Summary of Kika
Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar spins out enough frenetic material for four normal movies in this penetrating satire. Peter Coyote costars as Nicholas, an American writer living in Spain whose wife has killed herself, and whose stepson, Ramon (Alex Casanova), is obsessive and narcoleptic. Ramon's ex-girlfriend, Andrea "Scarface" Garacortada is a TV show host for a program that could be called "Spain's Most Violent Home Videos." Played by Spanish star Victoria Abril, Andrea is seductive, manipulative, and will stop at nothing to get a story, spending most of the movie with a camera strapped to the top of her head. Then there is Kika (Verónica Forqué), a flighty make-up artist in love with Nicholas but engaged to Ramon. When the sexually superhuman brother of Kika's lesbian maid (Rossy De Palma) rapes Kika in a very bizarre scene, this somehow causes all the links to come together, as the footage of the rape ends up on Andrea's show, and sinister secrets come out from all directions. With topics ranging from motherhoood to serial killers, this is a sexy, insane work from the great Almodóvar and deserves discovery by brave-hearted American audiences.
Details
| Language: | Spanish |
| Country: | Spain, France |
| Release date: | 6 May 1994 |
| Runtime: | 114 min |
Cast and Crew
as Nicholas
as Kika
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