subdued key, yielding a slight but vivacious work that delivers the pleasure of a punchy novella." Accolades |- | align = "center" rowspan = "7" | 1996 || rowspan = "7" | 10th Goya Awards || Best Director || Pedro Almodóvar || || rowspan = "7" | |- | Best Actress || Marisa Paredes || |- | rowspan = "2" | Best Supporting Actress || Chus Lampreave || |- | Rossy de Palma || |- | Best Art Direction || Wolfgang Burmann || |- | Best Makeup and Hairstyles || Antonio Panizza, Juan Pedro Hernández || |- | Best Sound || Bernardo Menz, Graham V. Hartstone || |} Marisa Paredes won Best Actress at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the ACE Awards, and the Sant Jordi Awards. Connections to later films by Pedro Almodóvar The opening scene of The Flower of My Secret, in which, during a class taught by Betty, two young doctors role-play trying to persuade a woman who is acting like a grieving mother to donate the organs of her dead teenage son, was used as the starting point of All About My Mother (1999). The novel in The Flower of My Secret that is rejected by Leo's publishers for being too dark and is then stolen and turned into a film has the same basic plot as that surrounding one of the daughters in Volver (2006): a young mother hides the corpse of her husband in a refrigerator after their daughter kills him because he tried to rape the girl. In The Flower of My Secret, Leo tells Ángel that she earned money reading and writing letters for her illiterate neighbors as a child, a detail from Almodóvar's own life that also appears in Pain and Glory (2019). Also, the title of the essay by Leo that Ángel wants to publish in El País is "Pain and Life", which resembles "Pain and Glory". See also List of Spanish films of 1995 List of submissions to the 68th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film List of Spanish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Notes References External links Interview with Pedro Almodóvar about The Flower of My Secret LA Times article on The Flower of My secret 1995 films 1995 drama films 1990s French films 1990s Spanish films 1990s Spanish-language films Ciby 2000 films El Deseo films Films about writers Films directed