Carne Tremula
Pedro Almodóvar
In 1970, on the day when the Franco regime declares the state of exception, Isabel gives birth to Victor on a bus. Twenty years later, Victor has a serious row with Elena, a woman he had a fling with. The situation degenerates and two police officers intervene. Victor accidentally shoots one of them, inflicting on him an irreversible injury…
With : Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal, Ángela Molina, José Sancho, Penélope Cruz, Pilar Bardem
Screenplay : Pedro Almodóvar, Jorge Guerricaechevarría, Ray Loriga
Image : Affonso Beato
Sound : Bernardo Menz
Editing : José Salcedo
Music : Alberto Iglesias
Decors : Antxón Gómez
Screenplay : Pedro Almodóvar, Jorge Guerricaechevarría, Ray Loriga
Image : Affonso Beato
Sound : Bernardo Menz
Editing : José Salcedo
Music : Alberto Iglesias
Decors : Antxón Gómez
Production : Deseo, El, CiBy 2000, France 3 Cinéma
Distribution: Tamasa Distribution
http://www.tamasadiffusion.com/
Distribution: Tamasa Distribution
http://www.tamasadiffusion.com/
Adapted from the first chapter of Ruth Rendell's Live Flesh, Carne Tremula (Live Flesh) is Almodóvar's first situated in history and in time. The feeling of guilt, which Almodóvar speaks of as being the basis of Spanish education, is omnipresent. There are again the themes of confusion of feelings in a film which constantly teeters between a crime film and a tragedy. On its release, Serge Toubiana wrote: “Decisive sentences are said with great lightness, people shoot at each other to say words of love, it could resemble a sitcom or it is quite simply a great film of our time”. Javier Bardem plays a role full of ambiguity and Penelope Cruz made her first appearance in an Almodóvar film.