被譽為艾慕杜華歷來最成熟的作品。老公遠在外地行軍,好友又嫌疑是老公情婦,家事一塌胡塗,言情小說家獨守空房思年華,中女失婚之苦有誰知?與其孤獨地對著打字機,好友建議她到雜誌社投稿改變一下生活習慣。自我重建如火如荼,會否因夫君的回歸而毀於一旦?導演今次收起七情六慾以寫實通俗劇作主題,大膽一新其創作風格。榮獲提名西班牙電影大獎高美獎最佳女主角及最佳導演。
Leo Macias, writer of wildly popular romantic novels, leads a shattered life
with a failing marriage, a bickering mother and a neurotic
sister. Struck by writer's block, she becomes a newspaper
critic under a pseudonym, and trashes her own bestsellers
as sentimental and simplistic. A surprisingly restrained
film by Almodovar (no drag queen or raunchy sex), THE
FLOWER OF MY SECRET delivers, with his off-the-wall humour,
heartfelt messages about love lost, loneliness and self-rediscovery.