SQIFF Lock Up Your Mothers: What Have I Done to Deserve This?

The life of a housewife in 1980s Madrid according to director Pedro Almodóvar. Queer cinema icon Carmen Maura plays the put-upon Gloria, who lives in a small apartment with her cold and violent husband, two kids - one of whom is gay and the other a drug dealer - her exhausting mother-in-law, and an errant lizard named Money. One day, Gloria decides to fight back...

Content note: Almodóvar’s trademark comedic and satirical approach to patriarchal violence in Spain.