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Law of Desire (1987) | User Rating
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Original title: Ley del deseo, La
DVD Release Date
• R2: 12 Jan 2004
Running Time
1 hour, 42 minutes
Country Spain
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• Law of Desire (1987)
• Das Gesetz der Begierde (1987)
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Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy, Gay/Lesbian, Detectives, Black Comedy, Murder, Love, Surreal
Plot: This bold tale of passion's dire consequences is one of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar's most smoldering films. Antonio Banderas stars as Antonio Benítez, an obsessive fan of writer-director Pablo Quintero (Eusebio Poncela), a cocaine-snorting homosexual hedonist whose last boyfriend, Juan (Miguel Molina), has just moved out. Antonio and Pablo have a few passionate nights, but Antonio's obsessive love soon proves hard for the noncommittal Pablo to escape from. Meanwhile, Pablo's transsexual sister, Tina (Carmen Maura), has problems of her own, including a closet brimming with dark sexual skeletons and Ada (Manuela Velasco), her unofficially adopted daughter. Pablo writes a play for Tina to star in, but when Antonio stalks and murders Juan in a fit of jealousy, the police end up suspecting the character Tina performs in the play. Pablo winds up with amnesia after a car accident, and the troubles just get weirder from there. For American audiences unfamiliar with Almodóvar's style, this film may prove a shocking experience, but his fans know that beneath their transgressive exteriors, his films throb with a palpable love of humanity, life, beauty, and art. This is a fine example of that art, with great music and memorable performances all around.
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Antonio Banderas
Shrek 2, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, The Mask of Zorro |
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Common Wealth, Volver | | Fernando Guillén
All About My Mother, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Mutant Action | | | |
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| Music By |
Bernardo Bonezzi
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Without News of God, Matador |
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