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Live Flesh, 1997

Starring: Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri

Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar

Written by: Pedro Almodóvar

Language: Spanish, Italian

Country: France, Spain

Runtime: 103 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:7.5

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Live Flesh can be described as sexual, contemplative, and gloomy. The plot revolves around a love triangle, infidelity, and couples relations. The main genres are drama and foreign. In terms of style, Live Flesh is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is located in Madrid. Live Flesh takes place in the 1990s. It is based on a book. The movie has received attention for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Note that Live Flesh involves nudity, sexual content, and profanity.

Summary of Live Flesh

A shooting in the Madrid apartment of Elena (Francesca Neri), an Italian dope addict, leaves policeman David (Javier Bardem) a paraplegic and Victor (Liberto Rabal), her would-be date, in prison. Years later, Victor gets out of jail but is obsessed with Elena, now clean, sober, and married to David, who has transcended his handicap by becoming a wheelchair basketball champion. The brooding, resentful Victor starts sleeping with their friend Clara (Ángela Molina), the sexually restless wife of David's jealous, alcoholic former cop partner, and finds out some harsh truths about what really happened that fateful night. Eventually love, desire, obsession, and betrayal all whirlwind into confrontations both deadly and intensely sexual.

Based on the novel by Ruth Rendell, this colorful, vibrant film from Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar overflows with rich, sensual performances and beauty captured by graceful camerawork, enhanced by a sizzling musical score by Alberto Iglesias. Penélope Cruz appears as Victor's mother, a prostitute who gives birth to him on a bus in the film's brilliant opening.

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Language:	Spanish, Italian
Country:	France, Spain
Release date:	12 October 1997
Runtime:	103 min

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Javier Bardem

as David

Francesca Neri

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Time

Obsession has seldom looked as gaudy or thrilling as here. Full Review

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by: Richard Corliss

Variety

Most of all, the satisfyingly cinematic screen adaptation puts motion and energy into a story that was mostly internalized from Victor's perspective in Rendell's book. Full Review

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by: Lisa Nesselson

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A good old fashioned noir with French movie sex thrown in. I couldn't stop watching... excellent acting, colors and twists. Read and rate it

20.September.2010
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by: felixxx999
felixxx999 rated this movie0/10

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