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
Live Flesh
Life, love, desire... and everything in between.
1997 · 1h 43m · R
Drama, Romance, Thriller
Directed by
Pedro Almodóvar
Overview
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!
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
80%
Tomatometer
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
Fresh
Despite his erotic fixations, Pedro Almodovar is the cinema's last true innocent.
David Denby, New York Magazine/Vulture
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
Rotten
This is the first Almodovar movie that could be called boring.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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