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Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom

Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón

1980

Pedro Almodóvar

Carmen Maura, Olvido Gara "Alaska", Eva Siva, Kiti Mánver ...

5.4

13,829

Comedy Pepi is raped by the policeman who catches her growing marijuana in her apartment. She seeks revenge by getting his masochist wife to leave him.

	Author	Review
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"[It] is shoddy and amateurish, the sophomoric excess of a neophyte who loves to shock"	NEG
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"A rough, unfunny comedy (...) Bathroom jokes, humorous rape scenes and abysmal home-movie cinematography, a reputation-dimming mess."	NEG
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"A tediously antic mess."	NEG
United Kingdom	Empire	"Short, shrill and plotless, but lively and paradoxically offensive (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Some scenes are hard to stomach, plotting is chaotic, and the budget and film quality are so low that the king of kitsch can make only a brave stab at his favourite acid colours and tacky interiors."	NEG
United States	Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle	"Almodóvar's first film is notable for its lack of polished filmmaking technique (...) Thematically and spiritually, the gleeful and absurd Almodóvar sensibility is all there (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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