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Dark Habits (Blu-ray, 2017)

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Spanish comedy drama written and directed by Pedro Almodovar. Cristina S. Pascual stars as Yolanda, a nightclub singer who witnesses her boyfriend die from an overdose. With the police out to question her, she decides to take refuge with a strange band of nuns in a convent in Madrid. With the convent, which was set up to offer shelter to troubled women, in serious danger of closure due to the withdrawal of funding from their main benefactor, the nuns welcome Yolanda and plan to get her to sing at a party for their wealthy patron in the hope that it will convince her not to abandon them. The cast also includes Julieta Serrano, Carmen Maura and Cecilia Roth.

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This incredibly bizarre film by Spanish director Pedro Almodovar follows Yolanda (Cristina Sanchez Pascual), a heroin-dealing nightclub singer who hides out in a convent after a deal goes badly and she becomes wanted by the law and rival gangs. The mother superior of the convent (Julieta Serrano) is a fan of Yolanda's singing and a lesbian heroin user, so before long she and Yolanda start shooting together. Another of the nuns (Marisa Paredes) takes LSD and hallucinates encounters with Jesus, while yet another (Chus Lampreave) writes trashy romance novels under a pseudonymn. There's also a pet tiger in the garden, and a dope-smoking priest. When the convent's main benefactor dies and his rich widow cuts off their contributions, the nuns pool together to try to raise money to support their habits. Facing the closing of the convent and the arrival of the stoic, dour head mother, the crazed girls throw a final party at which Yolanda sings a provocative song to her heartbroken mother superior. This gleefully blasphemous farce would make an interesting double bill with Whoopi Goldberg's SISTER ACT, which came out years later. Cecilia Roth (star of ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER) has a small role as one of the superior's former lovers.