Source: Some information on this page may have been sourced as part of the 2023 Wikimedia Australia Partnership Projects grant, with the purpose of improving and expanding the use of Wikidata on our website. Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. Read more about this project here.
Victoria Abril plays Rebecca Giner, a woman abandoned by her mother fifteen years ago who takes up with her Mum’s former lover, Manuel. But Rebecca’s mother is also one of Spain’s biggest singing stars and when Manuel is murdered, mother and daughter need to reconcile in order to uncover the secret’s behind the dead man’s assassination. As in most of Almodovar’s exuberant comedies, “High heels” is a celebration of women: women as stars, as mothers, as daughters and even women as men. His highly camp but extremelly stylish and emotionally operatic films have been instrumental in transforming our understanding of contemporary Spanish culture. Alomodovar’s films stand opposed to the moralism and dour poverty of the Franco regime; he fills his urban chaotic landscapes with a rich assortment of pleasure-seeking junkies, drag queens and eccentrics. In Almodovar’s universe the only moral laws are to not judge, and to love. In “High heels” the dysfunctional relationship between Rebecca and her mother comes good once both of them give themselves over to the perverse delights of gender, social and class confusion. Abril’s costumes are by Chanel and the music score is by Ryuichi Sakamoto. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Content notification
Our collection comprises over 40,000 moving image works, acquired and catalogued between the 1940s and early 2000s. As a result, some items may reflect outdated, offensive and possibly harmful views and opinions. ACMI is working to identify and redress such usages.
Learn more about our collection and our collection policy here. If you come across harmful content on our website that you would like to report, let us know.
How to watch
Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
316104
Language
Spanish
Audience classification
R (18+)
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Foreign language films
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures - Awards
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Mothers and daughters
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Transvestism
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Transvestites
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)