What Have I Done to Deserve This?
- brisk
- inventive
- intimate
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.
Our read · What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · drama · spanish entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of What Have I Done to Deserve This?
What watching it is actually like.
“You want early Almodóvar dark comedy where a Madrid housewife's life goes gloriously feral.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if glue-sniffing teens, sex work, and domestic chaos feel too squalid tonight.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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