Kika

Kika is a 1993 Spanish-French comedy-drama directed and written by Pedro Almodóvar. It follows Kika, an optimistic cosmetologist who is summoned to prepare the body of Ramón, a photographer believed to be dead. Her touch brings him back, and the two become a couple, though their relationship is complicated by Ramón's jealousy, his obsession with his mother's death, and the attentions of Nicholas Pierce, an American writer who is Ramón's stepfather. Around them circles Andrea Caracortada, a television presenter whose reality show turns crimes and accidents into prime-time entertainment.

The film belongs to the middle stretch of Almodóvar's career, arriving as his sixth feature, between High Heels and The Flower of My Secret. Verónica Forqué plays Kika, with Victoria Abril as Andrea, Peter Coyote as Nicholas, Rossy de Palma as Juana, Àlex Casanovas as Ramón and Santiago Lajusticia as Pablo. It was produced by CiBy 2000 and Almodóvar's own El Deseo, and its worldwide box office came to around 2 million dollars, a modest return for a director whose work from this period reached wider audiences.

On IMDb, the film holds a 5.5 rating from 17 reviews, while on TMDB it sits at 6.4 from 329 votes. The gap suggests that general viewers respond to it more warmly than critics did, though neither figure points to a broad consensus in its favour.