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Dark Habits (1983)

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DirectorPedro Almodóvar
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  • The "Humble Redeemers" convent → National Allegory
  • The nuns' transgressive pseudonyms (Sister Rat, Sister Manure, Sister Viper) → The Empty Vessel
  • Mother Superior's heroin-fueled devotion to Yolanda → Camp Sensibility
  • The convent as an isolated, all-female community
  • The nuns' syncretic veneration of saints and fashion designers
  • Sister Manure's LSD-induced visions and self-mortification → The Grotesque Body
  • Yolanda's performance of the bolero "Encadenados"
  • The convent's architecture and hidden spaces
  • The character archetypes of the suffering, passionate nuns

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