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Live Flesh

Carne trémula

1997

Pedro Almodóvar

Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal, Ángela Molina ...

6.1

15,988

Drama. Thriller Victor (Liberto Rabal), a pizza delivery man, is obsessed with Elena (Francesca Neri), a beautiful Italian junkie he met and slept with a few days ago. When his aggressive courting is mistaken for rape, cops David (Javier Bardem) and Sancho (Jose Sancho) show up at the scene, Victor's gun accidentally goes off and the younger David is shot and paralyzed. Four years later David is a wheelchair basketball star, now married to Elena. When ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"[A] stylish, sexy film noir (...) 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."	POS
United States	Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"An effortlessly articulated tragicomedy by Pedro Almodovar, a world-renowned filmmaker at the height of his powers."	POS
United States	Russell Smith Austin Chronicle	"What's really different about 'Live Flesh' is that, to a greater degree than ever, Almodóvar seems fully engaged with the inner lives of his characters (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader	"It's all very clever but not really provocative."	NEU
United States	Lisa Nesselson Variety	"Discerning viewers internationally should be impressed and entertained by the mature flow of the twisty narrative."	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"'Live Flesh' is a superb, sublime motion picture that uses a quintet of fascinating characters to examine a few of the director's favorite concepts."	POS
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"Almodóvar's most impressive film to date."	POS
United Kingdom	Giala Murray Empire	"The director attempts to lighten up with some misplaced jokes. These, though, are never any more than a brief respite from the irritating mess in which the characters embroil themselves. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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