Product Details

• Actors: Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Fernando Guillén, Nacho Martínez
• Directors: Pedro Almodovar
• Producers: Law of Desire ( La Ley del deseo ), Law of Desire, La Ley del deseo
• Format: Import, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 4 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Roadshow
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000LQJ9MI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #488,429 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Australia released, PAL/Region 4 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Commentary, Interactive Menu, SYNOPSIS: Popular film director Pablo Quintero (Eusebio Poncela) has found a new love in the form of handsome blue-collar Juan (Miguel Molina). Not altogether comfortable with his lifestyle, Juan decides to leave Pablo for a while to contemplate his future. Pablo insists that Juan keep in touch by sending him love letters. Ever the director, he plans to write the letters himself, and have Juan mail them back with his signature. If you think that settles things, you don't know filmmaker Pedro Almodovar. Among the many plot complications in Law of Desire is Pablo's subsequent romance with the possessive Antonio (Antonio Banderas, whose "gay kiss" in the film prompted front-page headlines in the Brazilian press), and Pablo's efforts to film the life story of his sister (Carmen Maura), who started out life as his brother. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Berlin International Film Festival, ...Law of Desire ( La Ley del deseo )

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Tragic Love Story and Foreign Film, August 12, 2007

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John R. Huetteman "J.R.Huetteman" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Law of Desire [La Ley Del Deseo] (DVD)

Law of Desire [La Ley Del Deseo] is by far the most memorable foreign film I have ever seen. In part, because I was sitting in a bubble (a sterile room with filtered and purified air) with my partner of 4 1/2 years who was undergoing salvage chemotherapy for a high-grade level 5 non-Hodgkins lymphoma. I was forced into watching this movie on a television and VCR I had taken to the hospital!

This Spanish movie, which stars among others Antonio Banderas, is truly a tragic love story of the character played by Antonio Banderas' obsession for another man who he loves deeply. The movie has bizarre twists in a love quadrangle that keeps the brow raised on many occasions, and at the end, where Antonio's love is holding him in his arms and sobbing that tear-jerking sob that comes from the soul, my partner called out to me and said "I will always love you, okay?" and had stopped breathing and passed away which is why this movie is truly embedded in me forever.

An excellent drama, but be prepared with lots of tissue.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Keeping my fingers cross....., October 9, 2009

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A. Salgado (San Diego) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Law of Desire (DVD)

Finally the law of desire a masterpiece in cinema is finally coming on dvd.You do not have to buy the whole pedro almodovar set to get this which is now out of print....I won't write a whole essay on this movie other than to say buy this is one of the best films in his movie career and ive waited yeras for this release in a single dvd purchase.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars tour de force, August 13, 2010

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Romualdo Monteclar "musicmaniac" (hanover, pa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Law of Desire (DVD)

Senor Pedro had pulled out a beautiful movie from a rather unpopular love theme, which served the
actor Banderas magnificently (I did not know he was a terrific actor until then). Having seen a few Almodovar films, including Bad Education (a very good one), I could surely say this work--his masterpiece!