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Release Date: 1987
Cast: Carmen Maura, Nacho Martínez, Lupe Barrado, Alfonso Vallejo, Manuela Velasco, Miguel Molina, Marta Fernández Muro, José Manuel Bello, Agustín Almodóvar, Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Bibiana Fernández, Germán Cobos ...MORE
Cast: Carmen Maura, Nacho Martínez, Lupe Barrado, Alfonso Vallejo, Manuela Velasco, Miguel Molina, Marta Fernández Muro, José Manuel Bello, Agustín Almodóvar, Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Bibiana Fernández, Germán Cobos, Hector Saurint, Angie Gray, Antonio Banderas, Juan A. Granja, Maruchi León, Pepe Patatín, Rossy de Palma, José R. Pardo, Helga Liné, José Ramón Fernández, Eusebio Poncela ...LESS
Categories: Movies, World Cinema, Drama Film, Lgbt, Crime Fiction, Romantic Comedy, Romance Film, Comedy
Law of Desire or La ley del deseo (in original Spanish) is a 1987 film by Pedro Almodóvar. Considered to be Almodóvar's first explicitly gay film, it focuses on a complex love triangle between three men. It follows the more serious tone set by his film Matador, exploring the ways in which society represses an individual's true desires with tragic consequences.
Pablo Quintero (Eusebio Poncela) is a homosexual film director whose latest work has just been released. In a party after the premiere he meets Antonio (Antonio Banderas), a beautiful young man who is obsessed with him. At the end... MORE
Law of Desire or La ley del deseo (in original Spanish) is a 1987 film by Pedro Almodóvar. Considered to be Almodóvar's first explicitly gay film, it focuses on a complex love triangle between three men. It follows the more serious tone set by his film Matador, exploring the ways in which society represses an individual's true desires with tragic consequences.
Pablo Quintero (Eusebio Poncela) is a homosexual film director whose latest work has just been released. In a party after the premiere he meets Antonio (Antonio Banderas), a beautiful young man who is obsessed with him. At the end of the evening they go home together and Antonio experiences anal sex for the first time, but while Pablo considers that happening just a lusty episode and is still in love with his long-time lover Juan, the young man misunderstands his intentions and reveals his possessive behaviour as a lover.
Parallel to this is told the dramatic story of Pablo's sister Tina (Carmen Maura), a struggling actress who once was a boy and changed sex to build a sexual relationship with her father, who eventually left her for another woman. Because of this, she hates men so much it is rumoured that she might be a LESS
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