Live Flesh
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Genre: Erotica, Thriller, World cinema, Romance Film, Romantic drama, Melodrama, Erotic Drama, Drama
Year: 1997
Country: Spain, France
Language: Spanish Language, Italian Language
Starring: Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal, Penélope Cruz, José Sancho, Ángela Molina, Pilar Bardem, Mariola Fuentes, Álex Angulo, Yael Be
Live Flesh (Spanish: Carne Trémula) is a 1997 Spanish romantic drama thriller film, written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Liberto Rabal, Javier Bardem, and Francesca Neri. The film is loosely based on Ruth Rendell's book Live Flesh.
Madrid, Christmas 1970: with the nation under a state of emergency ordered by the Franco regime, a young prostitute, Isabel Plaza Caballero (Penelope Cruz), gives birth on a bus to a son she names Victor. Twenty years later, Victor Plaza (Liberto Rabal) shows up for a date he made with Elena (Francesca Neri), a junkie with whom he had sex a week earlier. Waiting for her dealer to arrive, Elena is not interested in seeing Victor and tells him to leave. Finally she gets a gun and orders him out of the flat. Enraged, Victor wrestles the gun from her; in the process Elena gets knocked out, and the gun goes off.
A neighbor hears the shot and calls the police; and two cops respond to the report. The older cop, Sancho (Jose Sancho), is an unstable alcoholic who suspects his wife Clara (Angela Molina) of infidelity. The younger cop, David (Javier Bardem), more clean-cut and sober, prefers to do things by the book. Through the window they catch sight
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