Live Flesh overview
Overall Rating
Total Ratings: 1
Synopsis:
This Pedro Almodóvar melodrama examines how several lives are changed by a single gunshot. Adapting the novel Live Flesh by British mystery author Ruth Rendell, Almodóvar has given the material a Spanish makeover with added political thrust. Beginning in 1970 in Franco's Madrid, when a prostitute (Penelope Cruz) gives birth to a son, Victor, the story leaps forward to contemporary Madrid. Wealthy diplomat's daughter Elena (Francesca Neri) is watching Luis Buñuel's The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de La Cruz (1955) while waiting for the arrival of her heroin dealer, and she buzzes Victor (Liberto Rabal) (with whom she made a date, then forgot about him) into the building.
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Movie Details:
- Director: Pedro Almodóvar
- Studio: CiBy 2000, France 3 Cinema, Deseo
- Year: 1997
- Run Time: 120 minutes
- Country: France, Spain
- Language: Spanish
- Set in: Madrid, Spain
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Drama
- Filmed in: Color
