Entertainment Reviews:
Rolling Stone - 02/05/1998
"...LIVE FLESH, buoyed by keenly observed performances, is wildly seductive, subversively funny and coiled to spring..."
Sight and Sound - 05/01/1998
"...LIVE FLESH is a fully realised work...It is a complex and moving film that is beautiful to look at. You'll want to see it again..."
USA Today - 01/16/1998
"...[LIVE FLESH] is frankly erotic and, frankly, fascinating..."
Entertainment Weekly - 10/24/1997
"...[Almodovar's] most satisfying movie in recent memory..."
Box Office - 04/01/1998
"...There are plenty of reasons to see LIVE FLESH: Almodovar's assured eye for striking visuals, several sumptuous sex scenes, and a magnificent performance from Rabal..."
Premiere - 01/01/1998
"...A sensual fairy-tale about fate and retribution..."
Los Angeles Times - 01/30/1998
"...Beautifully crafted....The confidence Almodovar gives his actors must be awesome, for the risks and emotional range he elicits from them is typically breathtaking..."
Product Description:
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.
Plot Synopsis:
In LIVE FLESH, set on the streets of Madrid, a cop and a lovestruck street hood vie for a beautiful drug addict. Eventually, the cop wins her (and reforms her) while the hood languishes unjustly in prison. Upon his release seven years later, the hood returns to fix what went wrong, spinning a complex web of manipulation and deceit.
Plot Keywords:
Drugs |
Infidelity |
Love Triangle |
Melodrama |
Physically Impaired |
Racy |
Theatrical Release |
Vengeance
