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| Kika |
Almodóvar's outrageous comedy about voyeurism and the media marked a midpoint in his career: straddling the carefree excesses of the 1980s and his affecting melodramas of the 1990s onwards.
Kika is wall-to-wall colour, characters and double-crossing. It stars Victoria Abril as the devilish Jean-Paul Gaultier-clad Andrea Scarface: the one-woman ambulance-chasing TV host, hunting down the ever-optimistic Kika (played with Munroe-like charm by Verónica Forqué).
Culminating in a murderous showdown that would shame Quentin Tarantino,
Kika also features Almodóvar regular Rossy de Palma as the exquisitely 'ugly' maid Juana, and, in a stroke of sheer brilliance, his own elderly mother as a TV show hostess.
