After a failed drug deal, nightclub singer Yolanda goes into hiding at a convent. One nun hallucinates on LSD, another writes romance novels, and they have a pet tiger. When the convent runs into financial trouble, the Mother Superior tries to save it.
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“This early work from Pedro Almodóvar – his third feature – spins off from the popular continental genre of ‘naughty nun’ movies, which encompasses the soft-core chic of Borowczyk's Behind Convent Walls, but also such bizarre Italian exploitation movies as the historical Flavia, High Priestess of Violence and the contemporary The Killer Nun. With typical perversity, Almodóvar includes all the sensationalist themes – lesbianism, clerical sex, drug addiction – but makes his scandalous nuns uniformly innocent creatures, their vices as much a part of their piety as their habits. Only Yolanda, the fallen woman who exploits the sisters and turns out to be alarmingly shallow and callous, is involved in a fleeting moment of nudity. All the other sins are delicately depicted in a manner calculated to be as inoffensive as the material is supercharged.”
Monthly Film Bulletin1
- 1“Dark Habits/Entre Tinieblas,” Monthly Film Bulletin (London), October 1, 1990.
