Watch What Have I Done To Deserve This? (1984) Free Online

Release Date: 1984

Cast: Cecilia Roth, Carmen Maura, Kiti Manver, Ryo Hiruma, Luis Hostalot, Chus Lampreave, Veronica Forqué

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Comedy, Domestic Comedy, World cinema, Black comedy

What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Spanish: ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?) is a 1984 film by Pedro Almodóvar. The title is sometimes given with an exclamation mark at the end rather than a question mark. Almodóvar has described his fourth film as a homage to Italian Neorealism, although this tribute also involves jokes about paedophilia, prostitution, and a telekenetic child. The film, set in the towerblocks around Madrid, depicts female frustration and family breakdown, echoing Jean-Luc Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her but with Almodóvar's unique approach to... MORE

What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Spanish: ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?) is a 1984 film by Pedro Almodóvar. The title is sometimes given with an exclamation mark at the end rather than a question mark. Almodóvar has described his fourth film as a homage to Italian Neorealism, although this tribute also involves jokes about paedophilia, prostitution, and a telekenetic child. The film, set in the towerblocks around Madrid, depicts female frustration and family breakdown, echoing Jean-Luc Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her but with Almodóvar's unique approach to filmmaking. Carmen Maura has often worked for Almodóvar, she became a synonym of strong woman and also a gay icon for her role as a transsexual in La ley del deseo. The film is a slice of a housewife's life in 80's Madrid. Gloria (Carmen Maura) lives in a small and cheap apartment with husband and two children: the declared homosexual Miguel (12) and the cocaine pusher Toni (14). Her husband, Antonio, longs for a German woman he broke up with before he married Gloria. Gloria's mother-in-law, a frugal and unhappy woman who hides her magdalena cakes and desperately wants to move back to the country, is another LESS