Film Festival and the Film Department of the Museum of Modern Art. The film, set in the tower blocks around Madrid, depicts female frustration and family breakdown, echoing Jean-Luc Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her and strong story plots from Roald Dahl's Lamb to the Slaughter and Truman Capote's "A Day's Work" but with Almodóvar's unique approach to filmmaking. Technically, What Have I Done? is deliberately crude and the production values raw, a combined result of the film's low-budget as well as Almodovar's relative lack of experience. But the film's shabby look is in tune with the tale's squalid realistic context and social class of its protagonists. What Have I Done? was critically much better received than Almodovar's three previous films and put him on the movie map in America as a major talent to watch. References External links 1984 films 1984 comedy-drama films 1984 independent films 1984 LGBT-related films 1984 multilingual films 1980s black comedy films 1980s English-language films 1980s French-language films 1980s German-language films 1980s Spanish-language films English-language Spanish films Films about dysfunctional families Films directed by Pedro Almodóvar Films scored by Bernardo Bonezzi Films set in apartment buildings Films set in Madrid Films shot in Madrid LGBT-related black comedy films LGBT-related comedy-drama films Mariticide in fiction Social realism in film Spanish black comedy films Spanish comedy-drama films Spanish independent films Spanish LGBT-related films Spanish multilingual films