Live Flesh - With skin and hair

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Movie
German title Live Flesh - With skin and hair
Original title Carne trémula
Country of production Spain
original language Spanish
Publishing year 1997
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Pedro Almodovar
script Pedro Almodovar
Ray Loriga
production Agustín Almodovar
music Alberto Iglesias
camera Affonso Beato
cut Pepe Salcedo
occupation

Live Flesh - With skin and hair (Original title: Carne trémula ) is a 1997 film based on the novel In blinder Panik by Ruth Rendell . Pedro Almodóvar directed and was involved in the creation of the script. The main role played Liberto Rabal .

action

Madrid , January 1970, at the time of the Franco dictatorship . Pregnant prostitute Isabel Plaza is desperately trying to get to the hospital with the help of the brothel landlady Doña Centro ( Pilar Bardem ). You meet a bus on the deserted street that is on its way to the depot. Isabel gives birth to Victor in a spectacular way in this bus.

Madrid, 1990: Victor Plaza is now twenty years old. He calls the diplomat's daughter Elena Benedetti ( Francesca Neri ), whom he met a week earlier in a disco. She lets him understand that she doesn't want anything more to do with him. Extremely disappointed, he drives aimlessly through the city by bus. He sees Elena looking for her dealer from her balcony. He gets out to talk to her. She opens the door for him, believing he is her dealer, and reacts irritably to Victor. There is a scramble and an accidental shot into space. This brings two policemen on the scene: the quiet David and the quick-tempered, drinking Sancho. In another scramble between Victor and Sancho, another shot is fired that hits David. Victor goes to jail. There he followed a broadcast of the Paralympics two years later , where he recognized David as a paraplegic basketball player and Elena as a spectator and now David's wife.

In 1996, Victor returned to his mother's house after six years in prison. She died of cancer while he was in prison, and the house is neglected. After the first few days of freedom he went to his mother's grave and saw Elena in the cemetery, who received condolences from the mourners during the funeral of her father - the consul Benedetti. He joins the queue and confronts them with his presence. Later, still in the cemetery, he meets Clara, Sancho's wife, who is beaten by her husband. She drives Victor to his house, introduces him to love and soon falls in love with him. Victor, who had his "first time" with Clara, is eager to learn from her. He wants to become the best lover in the world, only to get revenge on Elena by making her submissive with his love arts and then leaving.

David, who learns of Victor's approaches to Elena, tries to keep him away from Elena by all means. He discovers that Victor and Clara are having a relationship, and as a last resort tries to incite the violent, furiously jealous Sancho on Victor. Little by little, those involved discover the whole truth of the unfortunate evening. Good and bad are blurred. A tragedy occurs when Clara tries to leave Sancho and the latter shows up at Victor's house.

Epilogue: Victor is working in kindergarten when his heavily pregnant wife goes into labor. You have a friend drive you to the clinic. The scene is reminiscent of Victor's birth. So Victor speaks to his unborn child, tells him that times have changed, the streets are now full of life, no longer like when people were hiding from the Franco regime . The times of fear in Spain are over.

reception

The film was seen in cinemas in Spain by 1.47 million people. He brought in 5 million euros. In Germany, where the film started on May 10, 1998 , the number of visitors was 139,057. In the United States played Live Flesh interlocutory 1. March and 5. April 1998 1.54 million US dollars one.

The film was released on video in Germany in June 1999 and on DVD in September 2005 .

Reviews

  • “A genre mix in flashy colors that was relocated to the time of the Franco dictator, which extremely playfully pulls out all the stops to make wishes and longings tangible and at the same time pathetically inflates them. Cinema entertainment characterized by grotesque tragicomics with a wink. " (Film-dienst, 9/1998)
  • “Designed as an homage to the late directing legend Luis Buñuel , love in all its forms is the mainspring of melodrama. The plot full of surprising twists and turns, fresh actors and the careful set-up make you forget the lack of anarchy typical of Almodovar and make Live Flesh probably his most commercial film to date. " (VideoWoche)

Awards

The film was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Best Non-English Language Film in 1999, but was beaten by the Brazilian drama Central Station . When the European Film Prize was awarded in 1998, the film was nominated in the categories of Best Film and Best Actor ( Javier Bardem ). For the Satellite Award was Live Flesh. Nominated with skin and hair for Best Foreign Language Film .

The film was nominated in three actor categories for Goya . While Javier Bardem for Best Leading Actor and Ángela Molina for Best Supporting Actress had to admit defeat to other actors, José Sancho won the Goya for Best Supporting Actor .

The film was awarded second place by the audience at the São Paulo International Film Festival .

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