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Law of Desire
Why this pick
Almodóvar again channels erotic obsession into a heightened, morally unruly melodrama, with volatile desire and sudden danger driving its theatrical emotional intensity.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1986 1h 50m ESP
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Why this pick
Its deliberately provocative mix of sexual power games, dark comedy, and vivid melodramatic stylisation closely follows Matador’s pleasure in transgression and unstable attraction.
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Live Flesh
Why this pick
A charged web of guilt, desire, violence, and shifting loyalties, rendered with the same sensuous colour and emotionally extravagant tension as Matador.
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Why this pick
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Deep Crimson
Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Julieta Serrano
Berta
Carmen Maura
Julia
Eusebio Poncela
Comisario
Chus Lampreave
Pilar
Assumpta Serna
María Cardenal
Antonio Banderas
Angel
Nacho Martínez
Diego Montes