It’s crude, chaotic and fizzing with the sort of DIY energy familiar from early work by John Waters and Derek Jarman, with many of Almodóvar’s signature touches (pastiche TV ads, matching accessories, director cameos) already in evidence – though the taboo-busting also includes domestic violence presented as a source of humour. Almodóvar plays the host of a penis-measuring contest. Carmen Maura, the director’s 80s muse, plays Pepi, whose revenge on the cop who rapes her involves persuading a punk chanteuse to pee on his wife. Fuck Me Tim!, was never released commercially, but this follow-up, shot on 16mm but blown up to 35mm, became one of the cult hits of La Movida Madrileña, the Madrid-based movement trashing the legacy of Franco in a riot of sex, drugs and gender fluidity. Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (1980)Īlmodóvar’s 8mm feature debut, Fuck. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy 16. Carmen Maura in Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom.
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