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02/09/06 03:17 AM
Live Flesh (1997)
78 %
Reviews Counted: 36 Fresh: 28 Rotten:8 Average Rating: 7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Synopsis:
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... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal, Ángela Molina, José Sancho
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Story: Ruth Rendell
Composer: Alberto Iglesias
Producer: Agustin Almodovar
Screenwriter: Pedro Almodóvar
Story: Ruth Rendell
Composer: Alberto Iglesias
Producer: Agustin Almodovar
Screenwriter: Pedro Almodóvar
Reviews
Top Critic
While despair underlies Almodovar's film...the director attempts to lighten up with some misplaced jokes. These, though, are never any more than a brief respite from the irritating mess in which the characters embroil themselves.
01/01/00 12:00 AM
Top Critic The film also feels curiously underpopulated, unenlivened by any sparky character bits.
07/13/07 08:45 AM
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04/27/07 03:15 AM
Very much an Almodovar picture with most of the anticipated outrageous occurrences intact.
10/11/06 11:29 AM
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09/23/06 03:59 AM
Another offbeat Almodovar treat — with another compelling Bardem performance.
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05/19/06 01:06 PM
Witness the increasing promise of Pedro Almodóvar, in a film that has gone largely unnoticed in his career but stands as a worthy and mostly mainstream entry into his unique style of twisted relationship movies.
07/03/04 03:37 PM
The film lacks the anarchic weirdness of some of his best, and without the camp elements it becomes obvious just how like a telenovela the goings-on are.
06/05/02 08:07 AM
The overall purpose of Live Flesh, the latest and reputedly most 'mature' work from Spanish bad-boy director Pedro Almodovar, remains engigmatic.
04/12/02 08:07 AM
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