
Leo Macias writes sentimental novels with great success but hidden under a pseudonym, Amanda Gris. She is unhappy with her professional life and with her husband, a soldier working in Brussels and Bosnia that is never at home. She will try anything to change her life.... (Full plot summary below)
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Leo Macias writes sentimental novels with great success but hidden under a pseudonym, Amanda Gris. She is unhappy with her professional life and with her husband, a soldier working in Brussels and Bosnia that is never at home. She will try anything to change her life.
Leave your thoughts about The Flower of My Secret.
| Washington PostRita KempleyThe picture seems muted, the flower's petals a little brown at the edges. |
| USA TodayMike ClarkThe Flower of My Secret is likely to be disappointing to Almodovar's admirers, and inexplicable to anyone else. |
| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannIt's a witty, intelligent scramble, and it's beautifully mounted. |
| Independent on SundayQuentin CurtisThere is not much of a plot; just real, romantically entwined lives -- a world away from the gaudy camp Almodovar had begun to tire us with. |
| San Francisco ExaminerBarry WaltersThe Spanish filmmaker goes back to what he does better than any other living director - post-modernizing the melodrama. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasAlmodóvar lets rip with a story of great emotional intensity, while retaining his signature stunning visual style and a central performance quite unlike anything previously seen in his work. A potent and strikingly well-delivered combination. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeIf it isn't as successful as his very best work, neither is it a failure -- and there are certainly enough Alomodovarisms to bring a smile to anyone's face |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher Nullan archetypal romantic comedy that reshapes the mold |
| New York TimesCaryn James[Almodovar’s] returns to the mordant but sympathetic comedy of his early, best work. Though the new film is not as antic as "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," it is funny and free of the nasty undertone that has made him seem tired and tiresome lately. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliIt's bland as often as it is affecting, and presents little that's new or original. |