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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.
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:VHS Tape
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!
20 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format: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.
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.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By A. Salgado
Format:DVD
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..............................
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Now a Classic, great as ever.
Wanted to see this film for years, finally had a chance and was
well worth the wait. Banderas excellent as usual. Get it and
see for yourself.
well worth the wait. Banderas excellent as usual. Get it and
see for yourself.
Published 1 month ago by Big Band Leader
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the best Almodovar's films
In "Law of desire" we can find: love, hate, betrayal, madness, DRAMA (a lot of drama), overexaggeration, murder, sex-change and many many more including naked Antonio... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Pitbulltje
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good movie
I bouht this when I was in Iraq, I like it but it was not that great! enough to keep me entertained in Iraq!
Published 20 months ago by Latin sensation :)
5.0 out of 5 stars
tour de force
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... Read more
actor Banderas magnificently (I did not know he was a terrific actor until... Read more
Published on August 13, 2010 by R. Monteclar
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sad but true
Much of what's written is true. How sad. The practice of 'seegheh' as it's called in Iran, is all to real, all too accepted by many. Read more
Published on June 5, 2010 by Nahid Sewell
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great early Almodovar film!
My first exposure to a Pedro Almodovar film way back about 20 years ago. Antonio Banderas is very young and convincing as a man infatuated with a male film director and his desire... Read more
Published on April 28, 2010 by David Plomin
5.0 out of 5 stars
Early Almodovar
Those familiar with Almodovar's "Bad Education" (2004) will be especially interested in his early treatment (1987) of the same subject. Read more
Published on January 7, 2010 by Moe Tapers
5.0 out of 5 stars
Keeping my fingers cross.....
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.... Read more
Published on October 9, 2009 by A. Salgado
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lo dudo
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... Read more
Published on January 13, 2007 by Adrian Thierry
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pedro fans want this film released on DVD already!!!!
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... Read more
Published on December 30, 2006 by Dave K.
