The Flower of My Secret
- Original title
- La flor de mi secreto
- Year
- 1995
- Running time
- 102 min.
- Country
- Spain
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Marisa Paredes
- Imanol Arias
- Juan Echanove
- Carme Elías
- Rossy de Palma
- Chus Lampreave
- Kiti Mánver
- Manuela Vargas
- Gloria Muñoz
- Juan José Otegui
- Jordi Mollà
- Nancho Novo
- Alicia Agut
- Joaquín Cortés
- Teresa Ibáñez
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama. Comedy | Literature. Melodrama. Psychological Drama
- Synopsis
- Marisa Paredes is Leocadia ("Leo") Macias, a woman writing “pink” romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across Spain. Unlike her romantic novels, her own love life is troubled. Leo has a less than happy relationship with her husband Paco, a military officer stationed in Brussels then later in Bosnia, who is distant both physically and emotionally. Leo begins to change the direction of her writing, wanting to focus more on darker themes such as pain and loss, and can no longer write her Amanda Gris novels, whose publishers demand sentimental happy-endings, at least until her contract is up. She begins to reevaluate her life through her relationship with her husband, her supposedly best friend Betty, her "crab-faced" sister Rosa and her bickering elderly mother. She also meets Angel, a newspaper editor who quickly falls for Leo and her writing.
- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1995: Goya Awards: 7 Nominations, including Best Director and Actress1996: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival: Best Actress (Marisa Paredes)
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