Made only six years after the death of Franco when Spain was beginning to rediscover its artistic freedom.
The magazine that Riza is looking through has an article about porn star "Patti Diphusa". This is the name that director Pedro Almodóvar used when writing the memoirs of a porn star.
The film ran for 10 years at the midnight show at Madrid's Alphaville cinema.
Although made in 1982, this wasn't released in the UK until 1993.
Pedro Almodóvar: cameo appearance as a leather-clad transvestite pop singer, performing the song "Suck it to Me". He wrote the lyrics for the song too.