Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980)
Free spirit Pepi strikes up a relationship with bored housewife Luci under... unusual... circumstances and introduces her to her friend Bom, a 16 year old punk singer and dominatrix who awakens Luci's suppressed desires.
Pedro Almodóvar's feature debut is a celebration of the libertarian counter-culture that arose in post-Franco Madrid... and "a smutty sexual sideshow most safely viewed in a full body condom" according to the WAPO.
Almodóvar is keen to explore boundaries and push buttons, but does so in a very juvenile way, like Kenny Everett without the irony. This was a very different Almodóvar to the one that would =direct films like All About My Mother, VOLVER and PAIN & GLORY.
As a debut it is undeniably amateurish and obnoxious, but exuberantly in love with life and unabashedly queer... PEPI, LUCI, BOM might not be a great film, but as an opening salvo it certainly announced Almodóvar's arrival.
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Also known as
- Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón
- Pepi, Luci, Bom and other girls like Mom
