Irish Film Institute -I’M SO EXCITED!

I’M SO EXCITED!

Director: PEDRO ALMODÓVAR

90 minutes, Spain, 2013, Subtitled, Colour, D-Cinema


Hands up who expected this! Almodóvar breaks his run of essentially serious recent melodramas to return to the frisky ribaldry characterising his ‘80s career up to Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. A Spanish airline flight is supposedly heading for Mexico City, but its landing gear is crocked, so the pilots circle over Spain, leaving an enthusiastically camp trio of male cabin attendants to entertain the handful of business-class travellers.

That the passengers in economy have been drugged into slumber is just one indication Almodóvar’s also aiming at a bitter metaphor for his homeland’s recent scandalous financial downturn, but his film’s also outrageous fun as the mescaline-spiked ‘Valencia cocktail’ is served and sexual inhibitions are loosened. Riotously naughty, but far from empty-headed, it’s another Almodóvar must-see, graced by generous cameos from old favourites Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz. (Notes by Trevor Johnston.)

IFI IRISH SHORTS
These screenings will include Peter Sheridan’s Irish Film Board short film, Oxygen, about an elderly woman whose joie de vivre keeps her one step ahead of her carer and son. (3 mins, 2004, Colour.)

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