Live Flesh
Life, love, desire... and everything in between.
Life, love, desire... and everything in between.
Drama, Romance, Thriller
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1997
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When Victor attempts to seduce Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to prison, where he concentrates on strengthening his mind, his body... and his desire for vengeance on the man who put him there. After his release and still madly in love with her, Victor will stop at nothing to win her over even if means revenge, for Elena has married David, the cop who sent him to prison!
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
103 min
Release date:
10 Oct 1997
Country:
ES, FR
Languages:
Bulgarian, Spanish, Italian
Budget:
$1,000,000
Revenue:
$4,686,844
Awards:
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award11 wins & 14 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
The overall purpose of Live Flesh, the latest and reputedly most 'mature' work from Spanish bad-boy director Pedro Almodovar, remains engigmatic.
– Liam Lacey,
Globe and Mail,
12 Apr 2002
fresh:
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.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Despite his erotic fixations, Pedro Almodovar is the cinema's last true innocent.
– David Denby,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
I can only conclude that the people who think Flower and Live Flesh represent the new, mature Almodovar think that his earlier pictures were immature.
– Charles Taylor,
Salon.com,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
This is the first Almodovar movie that could be called boring.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Jan 2000