Entre Tinieblas
Original spanish poster
Directed by	Pedro Almodóvar
Written by	Pedro Almodóvar
Starring	Cristina Sánchez Pascual Julieta Serrano Marisa Paredes Carmen Maura Chus Lampreave
Released	1983 (Spain) May 6, 1988 (USA)
Running time	114 Min
Language	Spanish
IMDb profile

Entre tinieblas (Dark Habits) is a black comedy from director Pedro Almodóvar. It's set in a convent, where nuns are sadomasochistic lesbians that push and take drugs, write erotic novels, raise a tiger in the back garden and idolize the greatest sinners of history. Pedro Almodóvar (born on September 25, 1951 in Calzada de Calatrava, Spain) is an Oscar-winning Spanish filmmaker. ... Pedro Almodóvar (born on September 25, 1951 in Calzada de Calatrava, Spain) is an Oscar-winning Spanish filmmaker. ... Maria Luisa Paredes Bartolome, (born April 3, 1946 in Madrid, Spain), better known in show business as Marisa Paredes, is a famous actress. ... Carmen Maura is a Spanish actress. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Black comedy, also known as black humor, is a subgenre of comedy and satire where topics and events normally treated seriously – death, mass murder, sickness, madness, terror, drug abuse, rape, etc. ... Pedro Almodóvar (born on September 25, 1951 in Calzada de Calatrava, Spain) is an Oscar-winning Spanish filmmaker. ... This article is about an abbey as a religious building. ... Flogging demonstration at Folsom Street Fair 2004. ... A lesbian is a homosexual woman who is aesthetically, sexually and romantically attracted to other women. ... Many drugs are provided in tablet form. ... Erotic literature is a literary genre. ... Binomial name Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) Tigers (Latin:Panthera tigris, of Kurdish origin: tij, meaning sharp and cutting) are mammals of the Felidae family and one of four big cats in the panthera genus. ... SiN is a computer game developed by Ritual Entertainment and published by Activision in late 1998. ...

Plot

When her lover dies of overdose, the nightclub singer Yolanda takes a chance to escape and retires in the convent that a strange couple of nuns reccomended her to visit. There she finds shelter and gentle caring, while she gets to know a world made of contraddictions, unusual habits and lies, totally different from the image she had of religious communities. Also, the abbess Julia falls in love with her, as she had done with each girl who lived there in the past. A drug overdose occurs when a chemical substance (i. ... This article is about an abbey as a religious building. ... Religion, sometimes used interchangeably with faith, is commonly defined as belief concerning the supernatural, sacred, or divine, and the practices and institutions associated with such belief. ... An Abbess (Latin abbatissa, fem. ...

As the nuns' life come to a crucial point, where everyone decides what to do of their own passions, the love story between Julia and Yolanda remains impossible, and everything leads to a powerful, harshly ironic and at the same time deeply sad conclusion.

Analysis

Apart from the rough desacration of catholic moral, Entre tinieblas also showcases the contraddictions of church in a deeper and less flamboyant way, through the theme of love, and its power of reducing everything to the basics. Church in Villach, Austria. ... A cartoonish version of the heart, a frequent modern symbol of love Love (Origin: An Indo-Iranian word. ...

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Other Versions

The early italian version was heavily cut, while a recent dvd from RaroVideo includes the deleted scenes.

Trivia

• The nuns have names depicting their perversion or habit (Suor Rata De Callejon, Suor Sordìda ..)

• On the wall of Julia's room there are images of great sinners, mostly divas of hollywood.

• Characters secretly writing novels (erotic and non) are frequent in the director's movies. The main character of La flor de mi secreto writes prose with a pseudonym and also works as a critic for a newspaper, heavily accusing herself of being a cheap writer. A characther from ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? is a writer who begins to develop interest in sadomasochism and wants to write a book about it.

• The movie is frequently compared to Bunuel's Viridiana.