What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Qu he hecho yo para merecer esto!!) (1984)
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100% of critics liked it
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78% of users liked it
(5,883 ratings)
Filmmaker Pedro Almodvar, the Luis Buuel of the 1980s, cooks up another perversely funny descent into urban hell in What Have I Done to Deserve This? Carmen Maura plays a middle-class housewife hemmed in by her wildly eccentric relatives. Her principal purpose in life is a balancing act: to keep her… More Filmmaker Pedro Almodvar, the Luis Buuel of the 1980s, cooks up another perversely funny descent into urban hell in What Have I Done to Deserve This? Carmen Maura plays a middle-class housewife hemmed in by her wildly eccentric relatives. Her principal purpose in life is a balancing act: to keep her head fastened on securely while all others are losing theirs. Film buffs will have a field day toting up Almodvar's visual and verbal allusions to the works of Buuel, Brian De Palma, Billy Wilder, John Waters, and even Andy Warhol. What Have I Done to Deserve This? was originally titled Que He Hecho Yo Para Merecer Esto? ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 1984 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Diverting, with a light suggestion of talent.
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Almodovar's fourth feature (but the first to be released in the US) may be one of his most realistic films, an offbeat, darkly humorous feminist comedy with a great performance by Carmen Maura.
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Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
It's all a lot like early period John Waters -- only better acted and set in Madrid.
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Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
A somewhat harsh critique of a Spanish culture that dooms women to indentured servitude.
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Cast
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Carmen Maura
as Gloria
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Ángel de Andrés López
as Antonio
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Veronica Forque
as Cristal
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Gonzalo Suárez
as Miguel
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Chus Lampreave
as Grandmother
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Juan Martinez
as Toni
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Amparo Soler Leal
as Patricia
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Kiti Manver
as Juani
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Luis Hostalot
as Polo