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VIEW POINTS, Page 76CINEMAMotherhood Is a Drag
Becky, the mom (Marisa Paredes) in HIGH HEELS, is a star of
the Hispanic stage and screen. Rebecca, the daughter (Victoria
Abril), is a sulky Cinderella who has always felt herself the
ignored victim of celebrity. As a child, she took the slights
hard, switching uppers for downers in her stepfather's medicine
bottles, just prior to his demise. Now in her late 20s, Rebecca
is still mom-crazy: she's married to one of her mother's old
lovers and is having a fling with a drag queen who impersonates
Becky. When Becky returns to Spain after years in Mexico, the
lover-husband dies too. Welcome back to the loopy world of
Pedro Almodovar. In this deadpan update of the old Lana Turner
weepie Portrait in Black, the writer-director of Tie Me Up! Tie
Me Down! tosses his usual salad of mad love, acrobatic sex and
cross-dressing, and garnishes it with a chorus line in a
women's prison. High Heels careers like a runaway circus train
over the rickety trestle of melodrama. Between giggles at the
absurdity of it all, you're welcome to shudder.
By Richard Corliss.