A departure from the punk spirit of Luci, Pepi, Bom…, Almodóvar’s second feature offers a stylish blend of Hitchcock and screwball comedy that reveals his innate talent at imitating and reinventing Hollywood gloss. While Labyrinth of Passion centers on the converging paths of two sex-crazed unfortunates, the film also orchestrates a larger cast and a delirious pastiche of hot-button topics ranging from incest to Islamic terrorism to Lacanian psychoanalysis, all colored with the polymorphous pansexuality found throughout Almodóvar’s earliest works.