Live Flesh


Based on a Ruth Rendell novel, this is a fairly straightfaced tale of betrayal both sexual and personal. A pointless armed stand-off over a lovely junkie leaves a young cop in a wheelchair, and the hapless hero in prison for shooting him. While the cop becomes a wheelchair athlete extraordinaire and marries the reformed junkie, our hero plots revenge. When he emerges from prison, however, nothing unfolds as simply as he expects. The cop's former partner and his straying wife muddy the waters so that the piece's predictable villain becomes its true-hearted hero. Expect lots of sex.
Spanish with English subtitles.

100 minutes.
No persons under 18 (Language, Sex, Nudity) .
Drama, Sex, On the Art Circuit

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

Who
Who's a pretty boy then?

Credits

Cast
Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal, Ángelina Molina, José Sancho, Penélope Cruz
Director
Pedro Almodóvar
ScreenplayPedro Almodóvar, Jorge Guerricaechevarría, Ray Loriga, from the novel by Ruth Rendell
MusicAlberto Iglesias
Sound formatsDolby Digital, Dolby SR
Made in1997
Produced byEl Deseo S.A., CiBy 2000, France 3 Cinéma

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Ratings

Scale (Max)20

What the Critics say

Cape Argus
Derek Wilson
15
The Cape Times
Julia Landau
20
eye Weekly
Gemma Files
15
Box Office
Cathy Thompson-Georges
10
Empire
Giala Murray
5
Film Review
Alan Jones
20

What the People say

Internet
228 Netizens
16

Average .. 72%

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