RARE IMPORT IN SPANISH ONLY WITH NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES. IT IS REGIONS 1 & 4 (IT WILL PLAY IN U.S., CANADA & SOUTH AMERICA)FOR ADULTS ONLY, IT INCLUDES FULL FRONTAL MALE NUDITY AND GAY THEMES

Writer/director Pedro Almodóvar's dark, sexy Hitchcock homage is his best work since his Oscar-winning All About My Mother, and deepened by a sun-dappled sadness. Handsome, enigmatic Ángel (Gael García Bernal) arrives at the Spanish movie offices of director Enrique Goded (Fele Martinez) and happily proclaims that he's actually Enrique's long-lost school chum Ignacio--an announcement that is both less than convincing and more than it seems. A novice actor, Ángel pitches a semi-autobiographical screenplay in which he's determined to star, a revenge-laden reflection of the doomed love he and Enrique shared as boys before a pedophile priest cruelly intervened. The script, and the lost days it recalls, carefully unfurls into a series of brooding movies-within-movies and memories-inside-memories, which allow the sensual, multiple-role-playing Bernal to give the performance of his young career--among other things, he makes a stunningly convincing drag queen--and Almodóvar the opportunity to movingly suggest that people will pay any price to ensure that their stories are told. --Steve Wiecking

Harshly treated by critics on release, of Pedro Almodovar's work Kika is perhaps the one that most benefits from re-viewing and re-assessment. The story of Kika (an astonishing Veronica Forque), a Madrid makeup artist whose relationship with Ramon (Alex Casanovas) leads to criminal schemes involving Kika's maid Juana (Rossy De Palma), Juana's amorous, criminal brother Pablo (Santiago Lajusticia), and Ramon's youth obsessed father Nicholas (Peter Coyote). Overseeing all, is the muckraking reality tabloid television show presided over by the formidable Andrea Scarface (a uniquely attired Victoria Abril). Attracting controversy because of the scene in which Almodovar depicts Kika's rape at the hands of Pablo with humorous detachment, the scene has since come to be more popularly viewed as further evidence of the director's tribute to the power of women.

From Pedro Almodovar, the director who brought you the worldwide hits "Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown," "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" and "High Heels," comes the offbeat, sexy comedy "Kika." "Outrageous!"--Playboy Magazine "Four Stars! A Sexy Farce... A Joy To Watch!"--Mademoiselle Magazine.

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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: UN
Release Date: 1-MAY-2007
Media Type: DVD

Description: Raimunda is trying to keep her family together despite her husbands inability to keep down a job. When a terrible incident occurs at home Raimunda covers it up in order to protect her daughter Paula. Meanwhile Raimundas sister Sole believes that their mother Irene has come back from the dead. SINOPSIS: La innovadora comedia sobrenatural de Pedro Almodóvar ha sido increíblemente ovacionada tanto por la crítica como por el público. ¿Cuál es el deber de una madre, cuando su hermosa hija Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) debe cumplir con varios trabajos, lidiar con el fracasado de su marido y ayudarle a su hija a pasar una complicada adolescencia? Venir a echarle una mano. Eso es exactamente lo que Irene (Carmen Maura) hace... ¡aunque esté muerta! Y eso no es lo más extraño que le ocurre a esta familia, que debe soportar acosos sexuales, la muerte de otro familiar querido ¡e incluso un asesinato! Sin importar lo que les suceda, te fascinarán los mágicos personajes que se entrelazan en este cuento creado por uno de los más queridos cineastas de nuestros tiempos.

5 DVD C(Carne Tremula (Live Flesh); Todo Sobre Mi Madre (All About My Mother); Hable Con Ella (Talk To Her); La Mala Educacion (Bad Education) & Volver) collection Box Set.