Almodovar’s thrid feature is a kitsch, colourful and enjoyably bitchy delight that showcases his masterful direction of and adoration for his female stars.
Blighted by drugs and amour fou, nightclub singer Yolanda has herself, committed to a charity convert. The nuns there include a writer of sensationalist pulp fiction, a drug addict and a masochist. But their private lives and perverse foibles are plunged into doubt when a new mother superior arrives to take charge.
An unbridled visual delight, the parodic Dark Habits offers a powerful denigration of the Catholic Church, a recurring motif on the director’s later work.

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