Incredibly funny and charming. This story about various women who find themselves at their wit's end plays out like a fast-paced Neil Simon play, with mounting coincidences and complex relationships but Almodovar is an incredible director of the De Palma school (or, probably, the Hitchcock school) so it never feels stagey.
Accept when it wants to. One of the fun aspects of the movie is how the main character is a soap opera star and how her life is turning into a soap opera, and Almodovar plays with that a lot with a balcony set that looks stagey, miniatures, and an introductory 10 minutes that have such a screamingly formal style they're practically surrealistic.
Couldn't recommend this movie more. Outstandingly funny.
