Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón
Pedro Almodóvar / ES, 1980 / 82 min.
Pepi, Lucy, Bom… was Almodóvar’s first feature film after a series of notorious short 8 and 16mm films. About the lives of three female friends in Madrid’s liberated alternative scene in the early 1980s. Celebration of 50 years of La Movida.
This year, Spain is celebrating 50 years of La Movida, the cultural liberation movement that erupted after General Francisco Franco’s death in 1975 and which reached its apotheosis in the Madrid underground movement’s productions by liberated filmmakers, artists, designers, club owners and playwrights with Pedro Almodóvar (1949) and his troop of actors as its most prominent exponents.
Three women with very different backgrounds stumble through life in Pepi, Luci, Bom…. The archetypes came together coincidentally: Pepi (Carmen Maura), a modern, independent woman was raped in her home by a macho cop who proves to be Luci’s husband. To get revenge, Pepi becomes friends with the mousy housewife Luci (Eva Siva), who gets no sexual gratification from her fascists spouse but does with the free-spirited, 16-year-old SM punk singer Bom (Olvido Gara).
La Movida
Eye is screening three films of La Movida: Arrebato (1980), Pepi, Luci, Bom..., Matador (Almodóvar) and Ocaña, an Intermittent Portrait (Pons Ventura). Tuesday 2 December a roundtable discussion will be held entitled Movida - 50th anniversary of the Spanish Transition Cinema. On Sunday, December 7, Pedro Almodóvar will be at Eye for a Conversation with Tilda Swinton.
These screenings are organised in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain in the Netherlands.
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Director
Pedro Almodóvar
Production year
1980
Country
ES
Original title
Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón
Length
82 min.
Language
Spanish
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
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