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- <text id=92TT0327>
- <title>
- Feb. 10, 1992: View Points:Cinema
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Feb. 10, 1992 Japan
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- VIEW POINTS, Page 76
- CINEMA
- Motherhood Is a Drag
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Becky, the mom (Marisa Paredes) in HIGH HEELS, is a star of
- the Hispanic stage and screen. Rebecca, the daughter (Victoria
- Abril), is a sulky Cinderella who has always felt herself the
- ignored victim of celebrity. As a child, she took the slights
- hard, switching uppers for downers in her stepfather's medicine
- bottles, just prior to his demise. Now in her late 20s, Rebecca
- is still mom-crazy: she's married to one of her mother's old
- lovers and is having a fling with a drag queen who impersonates
- Becky. When Becky returns to Spain after years in Mexico, the
- lover-husband dies too. Welcome back to the loopy world of
- Pedro Almodovar. In this deadpan update of the old Lana Turner
- weepie Portrait in Black, the writer-director of Tie Me Up! Tie
- Me Down! tosses his usual salad of mad love, acrobatic sex and
- cross-dressing, and garnishes it with a chorus line in a
- women's prison. High Heels careers like a runaway circus train
- over the rickety trestle of melodrama. Between giggles at the
- absurdity of it all, you're welcome to shudder.
- </p>
- <p>By Richard Corliss.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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