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Law
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The films of cult Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar swing between brightly coloured camp theatrics (as in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown [1988]) and more earnestly dramatic explorations of the nature of sexual desire (like Matador [1986]). The latter tendency is the more interesting, making Law of Desire a strange, riveting, gay version of a Hitchcockian thriller-melodrama about thwarted love. Almodóvar regulars Eusebio Poncela, Miguel Molina and Antonio Banderas play their extravagant, contorted roles with absolute conviction. MORE Almodóvar: All About My Mother, The Flower of My Secret, Live Flesh, Parallel Mothers, The Skin I Live In © Adrian Martin May 1992 |
