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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:28
Rotten:8
Average Rating:7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
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.... [More]
Starring: Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal, Ángela Molina
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
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.
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Top Criticgripping and gorgeous
Like the gorgeous cinematography (which is used to good effect to eroticize a sex scene), this is all part of Almodovar's stylistic package. Never has it been more impressive than here, where everything (not just the flesh) is vibrant with life.
Live Flesh is brimming with the acclaimed Spanish director's high-heeled flourishes.
It is a pleasure to see such a tight work from Amaldovar.
Despite his erotic fixations, Pedro Almodóvar is the cinema’s last true innocent.
Pedro Almodovar is finally back on track.
Even the film's title -- which is never explained -- seems a celebration of the vibrancy and sensuality of life. But, as the film also points out, the celebration is often tinged with regret and recrimination.
Very much an Almodovar picture with most of the anticipated outrageous occurrences intact.
Almodovar has a keen eye with the camera, and this helps keep us interested. His love of coincidence also creates some moments of the unexpected.
Remarkably taut, logical, even well framed, featuring the usual elements which make life worth living: revenge, lust, and guilt and redemption.
The overall purpose of Live Flesh, the latest and reputedly most 'mature' work from Spanish bad-boy director Pedro Almodovar, remains engigmatic.
This is the first Almodovar movie that could be called boring.
One wonders why Almodóvar even bothered.
Almodovar, whose work here has newly sophisticated polish, appreciates the dark twists of this story along with the eroticism that bring heat to all the scheming.
Top CriticThe film also feels curiously underpopulated, unenlivened by any sparky character bits.
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.
Almodovar seems more assured here, confident that he can interest us without overt winking and tomfoolery.
This film is one of Almodovar's more resolute efforts.
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