7/26/2023 0 Comments La hidden flowers![]() On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 85% based on 26 reviews, with an average score of 7/10. Shooting locations included Almagro, in the province of Ciudad Real. Gloria Muñoz as Alicia, Leo's publisher.Manuela Vargas as Blanca, Leo's housekeeper.Joaquín Cortés as Antonio, Blanca's son.Kiti Manver as Manuela, a nurse who works with Betty.Juan Echanove as Ángel, an editor at El País.Revitalized, she visits Ángel and, pretending it is New Year's Eve, they kiss. Leo, who had been worried she was losing her mind, like several of her female relatives before her, muses about the paradoxes of life and surprises Antonio by thanking him for giving meaning to her darkest months. Antonio stops by and tells her that he had taken advantage of her recent forgetfulness to steal some of her belongings to finance his show, among them a copy of her rejected novel, which is being made into a film. He says he did and, later, agrees to write the rest of the books on Leo's contract.īack in Madrid, after attending a dance performance created by Antonio, the son of her housekeeper, who danced in it with his mother, Leo returns to her apartment. Somewhat bemused, Leo calls Ángel to ask if he wrote and submitted the works on her behalf. One day, one of her publishers calls to say how pleased the firm is with Leo's two newest Amanda Gris novels. Leo spends some time resting and reconnecting with her roots. Leo's mother calls again to complain about Leo's sister, Rosa, with whom she lives, and say she is moving back to their old village Leo decides to go with her. Betty tells Leo that she and Paco had been having an affair, but she ended it the previous night when Paco came to see her following his argument with Leo. Once home, Leo finds Betty waiting for her. He agrees to keep her secret, so long as she does not try to kill herself again. ![]() When she wakes up in his apartment the next day, she learns that, in her compromised state, she told him that she is Amanda Gris. She vomits up the pills and wanders into the streets, where she bumps into Ángel. Leo is awoken by the sound of her mother leaving a message on her answering machine. Left alone, Leo takes half of a bottle of tranquilizers. As Paco is leaving, Leo asks if there is any chance at saving their marriage. Leo becomes hysterical and Paco accuses her of being selfish, resulting in an argument, during which all of the problems in their relationship that they had agreed to forget about until the conflict in Bosnia was over resurface. Paco comes home on what is supposed to be a 24-hour leave, but when he arrives, he is aloof and says he has to leave in two hours to go to Split. Frustrated, Leo writes an article belittling Amanda Gris and submits it to Ángel, who publishes it. The publishers threaten to sue her for breach of contract if she does not submit something in the required style, but she says she cannot write like that anymore. They tell her it is unsuitably dark for an Amanda Gris novel and remind her that she is contractually obliged to write five romance novels each year with happy endings and without any social conscience, to be published pseudonymously, at Leo's request. ![]() Leo meets with her publishers to discuss her newest manuscript. Overjoyed, she wants to talk to Paco, but her call wakes him up and he accuses her of being drunk before she can relay her news. Ángel calls Leo to tell her he has read the pieces she gave him as examples of her writing and wants to publish one of her essays. ![]() Ángel and Leo get along well, but when he asks her to review a new anthology of works by Amanda Gris, a popular writer of romance novels, she refuses and leaves his office. Betty later encourages Leo, who is a writer, to contact Betty's friend Ángel, an editor at El País, and ask for a job writing about literature as a distraction. Unable to contact her housekeeper, she tracks down her best friend, Betty, who removes the boots. Leocadia "Leo" Macías, missing her husband, Paco, a NATO military official who is in Brussels for reasons related to the Bosnian War, puts on a pair of boots he gave her, but they are too tight, and she cannot get them off. It was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 68th Academy Awards, but it was not selected as one of the final five nominees. The Flower of My Secret (Spanish: La flor de mi secreto) is a 1995 drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. ![]()
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