La Ley del deseo
Pedro Almodóvar
Pablo and Tina are siblings. Pablo is a fashionable director who has just been left by his young lover Juan. Tina is an actress who has changed sex. She used to be called Tino and now lives alone with her 10-year-old daughter. Pablo meets Antonio, a possessive and contradictory young man who will turn upside down both his life and Tina's…
With : Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Miguel Molina, Bibi Andersen, Manuela Velasco
Screenplay : Pedro Almodóvar
Image : Ángel Luis Fernández
Editing : José Salcedo
Sound : Jim Willis
Screenplay : Pedro Almodóvar
Image : Ángel Luis Fernández
Editing : José Salcedo
Sound : Jim Willis
Production : Deseo, El, Laurenfilm
Distribution: Tamasa Distribution
http://www.tamasadiffusion.com/
Distribution: Tamasa Distribution
http://www.tamasadiffusion.com/
The first film produced by El Deseo, the production company co-founded by Pedro Almodóvar and his brother Agustín and filmed the same year as Matador, La ley del deseo (Law of Desire) is its reverse double. The absolute encounter of two beings leaves room for the impossibility for these two beings to attune their desires at the same time. Each character is ready to anything to be loved: Pablo writes to his lover the letter he would himself like to receive from him and his sister has changed sex to satisfy the desire of her former lover. This is maybe Almodóvar's darkest film. The act of creation is shown as having a destructive, quasi-tragic element and no mention is ever made of any film that Almodóvar likes.