- The Flower of My Secret
Infobox_Film
name = The Flower of My Secret
| writer =Pedro Almodóvar
starring =Marisa Paredes ,Juan Echanove ,Rossy de Palma ,Chus Lampreave ,Joaquín Cortés
director =Pedro Almodóvar
producer =Agustín Almodóvar ,Esther García
runtime = 102 min
language = Spanish
imdb_id = 0113083"The Flower of My Secret" or "La flor de mi secreto" (original Spanish title) is a
1995 film by Spanish directorPedro Almodóvar .Plot
Marisa Paredes is Leocadia ("Leo") Macias, a woman writing “pink” romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across Spain. Unlike her romantic novels, her own love life is troubled. Leo has a less than happy relationship with her husband Paco, a military officer stationed in Brussels then later in Bosnia, who is distant both physically and emotionally.Leo begins to change the direction of her writing, wanting to focus more on darker themes such as pain and loss, and can no longer write her Amanda Gris novels, whose publishers demand sentimental happy-endings, at least until her contract is up. She begins to reevaluate her life through her relationship with her husband, her supposedly best friend Betty, her "crab-faced" sister Rosa and her bickering elderly mother. She also meets Angel, a newspaper editor who quickly falls for Leo and her writing.
Awards
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1996 — 7Goya Award nominations
* Marisa Paredes won Best Actress at theKarlovy Vary International Film Festival , theACE Awards and theSant Jordi Awards External links
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* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_n4_v26/ai_18268107/print Interview with Pedro Almodóvar about The Flower of My Secret]
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