Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom

Name: Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1980
Duration: 82 min
Cast: Carmen Maura, Félix Rotaeta, Alaska, Eva Siva, Concha Grégori

Pedro Almodóvar19801h 22mComedy

Why we chose it

Pedro Almodóvar shot his debut guerrilla-style, as perverse and anarchic as La Movida Madrileña, the counterculture that exploded after the fall of Francoism and took the film as its manifesto. Three girls throw themselves into Madrid’s art underground, and the result is brazen, imperfect cinema.

Synopsis

In late-1970s Madrid, Pepi is growing marijuana on her balcony when the policeman across the street spots the plants from his window. He demands a favour for keeping quiet, then rapes her. Pepi wants revenge and plans to get it through his wife, Luci, inviting her round for knitting lessons and introducing her to Bom, a teenage punk singer. Luci learns faster than Pepi bargained for.