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Original title: Carne trémula
Release Date
• USA: Oct 12, 1997
DVD Release Date
• R1: Apr 10, 2001
• R2: 4 Oct 2004
MPAA Rating
Rated R for strong sexuality, language and some drug content.
Running Time
1 hour, 43 minutes
Country France, Spain
Studio CiBy 2000, Deseo, France 3 Cinema
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Other Titles
• Live Flesh (1997)
• Carne trémula
• En Chair Et En Os
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Genre: Romance, Drama, Drugs, Melodrama, Infidelity, Revenge, Love Triangle, Racy, Murder, Experimental, Marriage, Prison, Prostitution, Police, Disturbing, Erotic, Psychodrama, Christmas
Tagline: Life, love, desire...and everything in between.
Plot: 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 to David, who has transcended his handicap by becoming a wheelchair basketball champion. The brooding, resentful Victor starts sleeping with their friend Clara (Ángela Molina), the sexually restless wife of David's jealous, alcoholic former cop partner, and finds out some harsh truths about what really happened that fateful night. Eventually love, desire, obsession, and betrayal all whirlwind into confrontations both deadly and intensely sexual. Based on the novel by Ruth Rendell, this colorful, vibrant film from Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar overflows with rich, sensual performances and beauty captured by graceful camerawork, enhanced by a sizzling musical score by Alberto Iglesias. Penélope Cruz appears as Victor’s mother, a prostitute who gives birth to him on a bus in the film’s brilliant opening.
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Pedro Almodóvar
All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown |
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1492: Conquest of Paradise, That Obscure Object of Desire, Stones | | Pilar Bardem
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