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Release Date: 1987 Cast: José Ramón Fernández, Marta Fernández Muro, Agustín Almodóvar, Nacho Martínez, Juan A. Granja, Fernando Guillén Cuervo, José R. Pardo, José Manuel Bello, Maruchi León, Miguel Molina, Rossy de Palma, Carmen Maura ...MORE
Cast: José Ramón Fernández, Marta Fernández Muro, Agustín Almodóvar, Nacho Martínez, Juan A. Granja, Fernando Guillén Cuervo, José R. Pardo, José Manuel Bello, Maruchi León, Miguel Molina, Rossy de Palma, Carmen Maura, Eusebio Poncela, Angie Gray, Pepe Patatín, Bibiana Fernández, Alfonso Vallejo, Germán Cobos, Helga Liné, Lupe Barrado, Hector Saurint, Antonio Banderas, Manuela Velasco ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, LGBT, World cinema, Comedy, Romance Film, Romantic 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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