Pedro Almodovar showed not a whisker of promise in his amateurish directorial debut, a smutty sexual sideshow most safely viewed in a full body condom. A voyeur across the way funds the frivolity, which he observes while cavorting with his bearded wife. And after what seems like a year at a cocktail party where you don't know anybody, the ghastly business finally just stops.
Some critics say it all has to do with women's submissive role in Spanish society.
Me, I think it's about flushing out Almodovar's id.