15 Nov 1995
Director: Pedro Almodovar
USA
1991
114 min
Awaiting the arrival of her actress mother in Madrid airport, a young woman reminisces about events from her childhood and her stepfather’s death – for which she was responsible. Now married, she is unaware that her husband is her mother’s former lover. It transpires that the husband is having an affair, then one evening, when all three women have been at the house at different times, the husband is shot and dies. A rather unusual judge is involved in the investigation to find the guilty party.