Pepi, Luci, Bom

It's an intentionally (if playfully) transgressive eruption of kitsch, punk rock, golden showers, abusive cops and rebellious sisterhood that features the director's first star discovery, Carmen Maura, as the most levelheaded of three friends.

Annoyingly amateurish.

Most notable for its bathroom jokes, humorous rape scenes and abysmal home-movie cinematography, [the film is a] reputation-dimming mess.

For fans of Almodvar, this first foray into filmmaking is essential viewing.

A series of screen provocations, including frank and degrading sexual acts, it's designed primarily to jolt the viewer.

Pedro Almodovar showed not a whisker of promise in his amateurish directorial debut, a smutty sexual sideshow most safely viewed in a full body condom.

An astonishing and unique film. [Full Review in Spanish]

This feature debut from Spain's enfant terrible is amateurish in both the positive and negative senses of the term, but it already shows his penchant for shock and provocation