The Flower of My Secret

"A highly melancholic plot with good moments, 'La flor de mi secreto' is one of those films forgotten in Pedro Almodóvar's filmography. And that is an injustice. The feature film, after all, brings all the tones of the filmmaker wrapped in an overly human narrative about a romance novelist (Marisa Paredes) who writes second-rate stories and achieves some success, but hides under a pseudonym. On the other hand, she feels unhappy because her marriage to a military man who is always abroad is in crisis. From there, with a lot of color and emotion, we follow this woman discovering herself, destroying herself, understanding herself. A strong and human film poem that does not spare emotion. And attention: the protagonist's book became 'Volver' years later."