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What Have I Done to Deserve This?
What Have I Done to Deserve This?
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WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS?

¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Spain, 1984
Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ+

Synopsis

Overworked cleaning lady Gloria takes various jobs to make ends meet. Her unforgiving life is filled with eccentric characters: an abusive taxi driver husband, a drug-dealer teenage son, an unappreciative mother-in-law, and a sex worker neighbour who pays Gloria to sit in with exhibitionist clients.

Synopsis

Overworked cleaning lady Gloria takes various jobs to make ends meet. Her unforgiving life is filled with eccentric characters: an abusive taxi driver husband, a drug-dealer teenage son, an unappreciative mother-in-law, and a sex worker neighbour who pays Gloria to sit in with exhibitionist clients.

Our take

Delving deeper into Almodóvar’s ‘80s period, we bring you this nightmarish cult comedy—the first of the auteur’s films to be well received in Spain. Confronting the repression of a society in recovery from dictatorship, What Have I Done flirts with neorealism while proudly transgressing its rules.