Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (1980) on Netflix

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• Pepi, Luci, Bom was made with an initial budget of 500,000 pesetas collected by Carmen Maura and Félix Rotaeta; Almodóvar was then a Telefónica administrative employee, so filming was done on weekends by a group of volunteers.
• With so little money, a full year of shooting produced only 50 minutes, too short for commercial distribution; backing from Catalan producer Pepón Coromina then paid for 30 more minutes filmed over six months of 1980.
• With no studio backing, the film relied on real locations: the Madrid residence of pop-art painters Costus, Juan Carrero and Enrique Naya, who also appear in the film, became the home of Luci and Bom.
• The crew was so inexperienced that the cameraman cut off actors' heads, particularly during the general erections contest scene.
• The film grew out of "General Erections", a story Almodóvar published in 1978 in the magazine El Víbora that parodied Spain's 1977 general elections.
• The film became emblematic of La Movida Madrileña and, with its camp style and open sexuality, amassed a cult following and established Almodóvar as an agent provocateur.
• Filming dragged on so long it wrecked continuity: Alaska was 15 when shooting began and 17 when it wrapped, and the scene of Pepi answering the door to the policeman was shot in pieces in June 1979, December 1979 and June 1980.
• The shoot was chaotic: it began in 1978 and lasted a year and a half, and a whole year produced only 50 minutes of film, too short to distribute, until Catalan producer Pepón Coromina's backing paid for 30 more minutes shot over six months of 1980.