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This film’s director described its distinctive art design as a “pop art kind of set” and said if he’d had “the money and the contacts,” he would’ve had David Hockney design it. One actress complained that her character was asleep for most of this film, so the director added an erotic dream sequence for her; at the end of this film, that character finally wakes up on a balcony and speaks to the protagonist, who reveals that she is (*) pregnant. A character in this film unknowingly becomes involved with a group of Shiite terrorists who plan to hijack a flight to Stockholm. Policemen and a repairman simultaneously visiting the same apartment are put to sleep after being served gazpacho spiked with sleeping pills by Carlos, an important early role for Antonio Banderas. For 10 points, identify this comedy about Pepa’s failed attempts to contact her ex-boyfriend Ivan, the breakthrough film of Pedro Almodovar. (10[1])■END■

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