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Law of Desire [Region 2]

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This film is an immersion into the topsy-turvy world of Pedro Almodovar and post-Franco Madrid, with plenty of explicit and subtle sexual ambiguity. Carmen Maura is first rate as a transexual actress/actor down on his/her luck, and Antonio Banderas is downright delicious as a young man obsessed with Maura's hedonistic and selfish brother (Eusebio Ponseca). There is great music here, and the movie is fun!

This by far has to be the best almodovar movie. unfourtanely i think it will be a long time before it comes out on dvd. This is one of my favorite foreign movies. It is touching and powerful and antonio banderas actually knew how to act then. If anyone out there works for any studio's and happens to read this please put this on dvd it will sell..............................

The Law of Desire was the first of Almodovar's films to be released in the U.S. although it is not his first film. And what an introduction. The film is sleek and sexy and captures Antonio Banderas in all his sexual beauty. What one has to know about Almodovar is the sense of humor behind the vehicle which is the film. To begin with, the GREAT Carmen Maura has an incredible history: she was a boy, taken away by her father as I recall, had a subsequent sex change to become a woman and is now in a lesbian relationship--so she has essentially come full circle! That is the sly humor of Almodovar; his art also draws you into the pathology of Banderas, with his incredible beauty, until you are finally rooting for him to accomplish his criminal intent. When Almodova wants to be flippant he is the master; when he wants to get a joke across, the delivery is first class; when he wants you to cry, he is incomparable--I defy anyone to sit through All About My Mother with dry eyes. The future genius of Almodovar is up front in this film and his work to date has never disappointed.

Not being able to get most of the Almodovar films on dvd for playing on USA dvd players is obnoxious and the only subtitled vhs tapes you can manage to get are video store throw outs which mercifully appear not to have been rented out much. Why no one wanted to watch them is troubling because his films are marvelous- made by someone who loves women, film, writing, music and who champions those who, in the midst of profound societal oppostion, create themselves and the love they deserve and crave.
Law of Desire manages to break my heart and make me feel better about love and lust every time i watch it .When i first saw it, a friend of mine was dying from AIDS so the impact the film has made on me has been enhanced twofold. I try to make everyone I meet watch it and if they do not ' get it' I wonder if they've ever really been in that sort of crazed love that makes all things possible and impossible. As Elvis Costello said, "they say they'd die for love and then they live it out"- here's a story about being able to not live it out.

With each new film, Pedro Almodovar continually tops himself. Almodovar has a strong following these days, so, for Christ's sake, somebody PLEASE release "Law Of Desire" on DVD already!!!!!

This is one of the best Almodovar's brothers (Agustin and Pedro) movies, it's one of the first movies in wich Antonio Banderas appeared, it's real as life, erotic,funny,tragic,simply awesome.

This should be on DVD and available to everyone. I saw it when it was new. A great film, funny, scarey, romantic, and Antonio was not Zorro. He was the man Madonna, and sooooo many others, fell in love with by looking at him on a screen.

Though the movie has its simplicities, the conotations are not missed: dual sexual identities, strange bed fellows, and the altamate sacrifice -lost of one's original identity to satiate anothers desires.

The love and desire are showed in this movie with great characters and unebeliveble history. Carmem Maura and Antonio Banderas are perfect. Only Almodovar in the recently cinema do films so sincere.

BOLD WORK, direction and then ACTING too by our young hero - ANTONIO BANDERAS. The opening sequence alone snaps you up right away......[you're not too sure if you entered the "wrong" theatre]

A tormented tale of about a very curious and persistant young man seeking clarity, wanting direction [?] about the alternate life styles in Modern Spain. It almost plays along the lines of a '60 ties "B" movie and maybe that's the intention - something along the lines of the Bergman, Montand and Perkins "Goodbye Again" vehicle, EVEN a male "Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone".

This one is darker, and Mediterranean passions ignite. An elegant scenario about an older man, pursued by a young, eager, uninitiated lad. Quite graphic too in its love-scenes, and draws a few tears for the sentimentally inclined. For the cynic? There are very funny lines, [subtitled] a little too bold for print, but it is very worth watching [maybe it's just in the translation].

Weak-points - the Hitchcockian slant on the story, and the transvestite sister [unwise, unaccurate casting].

It's an earlier work by PEDRO ALMODOVAR, still fresh, must be added to DVD heaven and paired with "Matador" - another splash of salsa!