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'I'm So Excited': Pedro Almodovar's Spanish Metaphor
Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's new film opens next weekend. It's called I'm So Excited, and it's about a group of passengers stuck on an airplane in trouble. It's a comedy: In between panicking, the passengers find time to fall in love, make love — and come out of the closet. It's also a return to the filmmaker's roots.
In one scene, the flight attendants attempt to calm passengers down by serving them drinks spiked with mescaline. It's a nod to a scene in one of Almodovar's most celebrated films, Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown, in which police interrogate a woman in her home, then realize the gazpacho she served them is spiked with sleeping pills.