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Married to the mob. USA, 1988.

Director: Jonathan Demme

Screenwriters: Barry Strugatz and Mark R.

Burns Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl

Subjects of interest: sexual liberation

If synopsis:

Angela, the wife of a gangster, is not happy with your life. Not interested in socializing with other women in the mob or by giving them the luxury of obscure origin money her husband earns. When he sleeps with his boss's mistress is murdered and in retaliation, Angela begins to consider changing lives, especially when Tony is haunted by the head of her late husband, and his zealous wife Connie, who thinks both are lovers. Almost by stealth, Angela gives her house to charity and moved to a small apartment in New York with her son, without thinking that you will not be so easy to get rid of the mob or Mike, an FBI agent to investigate whether the remains is still connected with them.

Comment:

Angela is going through a crisis. 's really ambitious person who does not fill the role at all in the mafia world is reserved for women, she is isolated and causes rejection of the circle that surrounds it, as the gangsters , as I often say, are a family and she, as the title of the film (which is married to the mob, married to the mob in the original) is married to all of them, not only with her husband. So ambition is crushed and dormant for comfort, the dullness and overprotective of their role as bourgeois housewife. The death of her husband breaks the only link that holds it in this world and throws to make the difficult decision to start afresh, leaving your child with an elegant house in the suburbs, installed on a floor uncomfortable and having to find work and struggle with public transport and cons of the big city, in exchange for one big advantage: to be free at last.

Freedom however is not so easy and the past of Angela will pursue; the film deals with the difficulties of a person to develop independent living and a break above that will not be easily understood by most people who actually dreams of a life similar to that of which she is fleeing. Jonathan Demme raised this situation in two of the 80 films, Something Wild , which is a man who decides to leave his life of yuppie, and Married to the Mob on a homemaker. Breaking the traditional roles, the man in Something Wild is passive and is a woman who drives him out of a life in which I was unaware, until know, of being trapped. Here, however, the protagonist is active and she chooses and decides to change his life. Meet a man, yes, but that's not going to be the cause but the consequence of a decision to change that she has made for herself. Jonathan Demme men need women, but women can be self-sufficient, have, though, to dare to be.

Like many good comedies, Married to the Mob works because it has all this background that could give a good game in a dramatic film. But Demme opted for a very unorthodox sense of humor and a mood of celebration and hedonistic ranging from the grotesque, almost in line with Almodóvar or John Waters, and comedy romantic, as we are in a story of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy regains girl. Mike, the attraction that follows FBI agent Angela, is a kind of Mortadelo which adopts the most colorful costumes and appears in the most unexpected places. Even the film's violent scenes have a cartoon festive tone that makes this film one of the most characteristic, along with Desperately Seeking Susan, light and jovial spirit of the new wave in the 80 . Married to the Mob is a celebration of life. Scenes

Highlights:

• Angela looking for work in a fancy fast food. When trying on the uniform, the local director of the spy through the eye of a giant chicken drawn on the wall. Realizing frightened out of place wearing a jacket grotesque lion tamer.
  

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• off the bus and Mike has to follow. Unable to walk out the door because the bus is packed with people, open a trap door and out the roof. Then you have to jump from car to car to reach the sidewalk. What is unique about this scene is recorded in a single plane and you can see that it is the Matthew Modine who rolls without specialists of any kind.

• After spending a wonderful evening of dinner and dancing, Angela invites Mike to his apartment. Mike begins to massage her feet, to Angela, obviously pleased with these appointments, he escapes comment was not so much a man touch me below the waist ... When you realize what you said, it rises sharply, pulling the cup you're drinking and try to wipe Mike clothes touches the genitals in a slip too "Freudian."

• Angela is arrested by the FBI, which threatens to remove your child if you do not cooperate and deport the immigrant who has been working. Disgusted, she does not hesitate to tell the federal act like the mafia. The inspector stopped the points of difference: the mafia works under the orders of maniacs and psychopaths and the FBI under the President of the United States. The first level of the agent somewhat grotesque takes the viewer to share the opinion of Angela: not much difference between the two.

Anecdotes:

• a locker in the U.S. reached 20 million dollars, double its budget.

• All actors got rave reviews. Especially Dean Stockwell, who won multiple awards and an Oscar nomination Best Supporting Actor.

• The end credits of the film are interesting to watch because they include deleted scenes in the editing room. About

director:

Jonathan Demme born in New York in 1944. His film career is as eclectic as erratic, his name begins to ring with a thriller, Last Embrace (1979) and a dramatic comedy about Hollywood, Melvin and Howard (1980). His two comedies of the 80 Something Wild and Married to the Mob two very unorthodox films that tell stories of liberation staff, call the attention of moviegoers. Having devoted and win the Oscar Silence of the Lambs (1991) , the excellent thriller that is a new abrupt change of style in his career, Demme away from Hollywood for several years, probably unhappy with the many changes the production takes place in their project on AIDS, who becomes the commercial and decaffeinated Philadelphia (1993). Since then he has lavished little and movies, less personal than the old, have yielded more discreet.

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All about my mother, naturally surreal

All About My Mother. Spain, 1999.

Director and Screenwriter: Pedro Almodóvar

Cast: Cecilia Roth , Antonia Sanjuan, Penelope Cruz, Marisa Paredes

Subjects of interest: Transsexualism, machismo, lesbianism, prostitution

Synopsis:

Manuela loses her teenage son when he is hit by a car, just as he intended to reveal at last the boy his father's identity. The latter, which also know you have a child, changed his name years ago, Stephen, Lola and prostitute in Barcelona. Manuela goes there to tell the story, seeking to know the sister Lola Rosa, a young nun who distributed condoms among transvestites and hide an unexpected secret: Lola is expecting a child.

Comment:

After a series of films not very good results during the 90's, Almodóvar achieved with All about my mother than anyone expected: an international success and an even higher impact to those obtained with films of the past decade. It is true that this repeated itself largely in this film the outline of his masterpiece Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown . Both films are structured around a strong central female character who goes through a personal crisis that distract from the problems of other women that somehow you will be responsible.

These women Almodóvar as positive and able to help and be a guide for other women are emotionally vulnerable at the same time, so relationships have been unsatisfactory or even abusive. Lola, Manuela as has the worst of the worst a man and a woman, with women playing a very similar way as it did the lover who abandoned Pepa, the protagonist of Women on the Verge ... Interestingly, having become a woman he does not mitigate his conduct at all sexist and misogyny. Lola is an incarnation of evil and death (Manuela film says at the end of the appropriateness of being in a cemetery) that exorcised many ghosts while director normally present in his films, such as transsexuals, macho men that harm women, women with large breasts, paternity, etc.

Despite the stylized and unbelievable that it this character is precisely the great merit of film is told with all natural and simple a priori surreal plot and delirious transvestite pregnant nuns, theater divas lesbian girlfriends heroin users, truckers who operate and become prostitutes. Normal to live with all these situations because Almodóvar's expertise as a storyteller, that this film reaches its peak probably is what makes All About My Mother, without having to wear flags of any kind or give any explicit message, is all a plea for women, since men are completely secondary to the plot, and above all respect for diverse forms of life. One drawback

be blamed for the exaggerated postmodern director, who never hides his screenplay was inspired by other films, may cause some emotional disconnection in a drama that purports to be intense and torn. For example, the accident in which Manuela's son is killed while trying to get an autograph from his idol is directly copied, including its planning, Opening night, so the scene does not work emotionally, but only cinephile wink to the viewer who knows the John Cassavetes film . Likewise, in another point in the film a character reproaches Manuela is the same as Eve Harrington, the heroine of Eve, is a dialogue of the show himself a drag queen that of a female character drama.

Top Scenes:

• Manuela travels to Barcelona transvestites area looking for Lola. An overhead shot shows a huge, dangerous and quite gruesome scene of cars and high heels.

• The coincidence of Rosa, Huma Agrado and Manuela's apartment gives rise to a kind of party girls in the nun Rosa stating lets her hair down his fascination with cocks and nice finish counting trucker Human evolution a transsexual prostitute.

• private problems of Huma Rojo, the stage actress, and her lover Nina necessary to interrupt the function. Welcome offered to entertain the spectators who want to stay with a famous monologue that tells all operations that have allowed to become a woman.
  

Anecdotes:

• Its huge critical and commercial success of Almodovar's career up taking it to heights never reached so far by any English filmmaker. Among the major awards won by the film include the Oscar for best foreign film, the Goya for best film and director of the year and best director at Cannes, where he appeared before the press. Two and a half million viewers watched the film in Spain and nearly two million in France.

• The plot of the film is mainly borrowed elements Opening night, in which Gena Rowlands played an alcoholic diva drama that she appeared the ghost of a girl who had run over while trying to get his autograph, and Eva naked, about a helpful young man who tried to usurp the position of another star theater. The film's title is a paraphrase of All about Eve, the original title Eve. Almodóvar explicit these references at the end of the film, which focuses on all the actresses who have performed with other actresses in the movies, in addition to all mothers.
  

• Actress Antonia Sanjuan, who rose to popularity with the film playing Agrado, mate Lola profession, has always refused to confirm or deny the rumors about her transsexuality.
  

About the director:

Pedro Almodovar was born in Calzada de Calatrava (Ciudad Real) in 1949. He moved to Madrid in his youth to work at the phone company. In the ca pital begins to carry out in their spare time a series of shorts, a prelude to what will be his first film, Pepi Luci Bom and Other Girls Like , held very precarious means. Fast becoming one of the most emblematic of the so-called Madrid nightlife commercial success in Spain and the acceptance by foreign critics are not wait. From the beginning, sex is one of the key ingredients of Almodóvar film. Facing down the old myths of English machismo, the director fills his films gay, transvestites, sexually liberated and dominant, and Iberian males are ridiculed. This blend of social criticism and grotesque intended amaze and attract attention, while claiming personal and sexual freedom in a country emerging from a dictatorship and an era marked by religious taboos.

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