After fifteen minutes or so, I thought that this would be the best Almodóvar film that I had ever seen. Inexplicably, the movie simply falls apart after the terrific opening, and I was left stone-faced until things improved considerably at the end. After setting things up so beautifully at the start, it was very disappointing to see things bog down so quickly. The cast was good, the director is certainly good, and even the basic plot was good. But somehow, once a good plot was in place, the writers forgot to build an interesting story around it, and so the film fell flat.
