Capo
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Post by Capo on Nov 12, 2007 18:16:37 GMT
Carne trémula Live Flesh Pedro Almodóvar 1997 France / Spain A cop is paralysed by a stray bullet, and, years later, his wife falls for the shooter. If Méliès used narrative as a platform for further, physical decoration, Almodóvar uses it as a means of exploring human desire; it bothers him seemingly very little that his films recycle the same plot contrivances and narrative loopholes, all fabricated around the most implausible of coincidences (indeed, coincidence seems as much an obsession as does chance, as does human emotion). Here is one of his most powerful works, a film whose characters and situations, however unlikely they seem to be, are convincing in themselves, acted superbly and grounded in a humane treatment, of sex, its complications, and the genuine dilemmas that arise from both.
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