Live Flesh (Spanish: Carne Trémula) is a 1997 Spanish film, written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Javier Bardem and Francesca Neri. The film is loosely based on Ruth Rendell's book Live Flesh.
Madrid, January 1970: As the nation is held under a state of emergency ordered by the Franco regime, a young prostitute Isabel Plaza Caballero (Penélope Cruz) gives birth in a bus to a son she names Victor.
Twenty years later Victor Plaza (Liber...
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Live Flesh (Spanish: Carne Trémula) is a 1997 Spanish film, written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Javier Bardem and Francesca Neri. The film is loosely based on Ruth Rendell's book Live Flesh.
Madrid, January 1970: As the nation is held under a state of emergency ordered by the Franco regime, a young prostitute Isabel Plaza Caballero (Penélope Cruz) gives birth in a bus to a son she names Victor.
Twenty years later Victor Plaza (Liberto Rabal), now twenty years old, shows up for a date he made with Elena (Francesca Neri), the junkie daughter of a diplomat with whom he had sex a week earlier. Waiting for her dealer to arrive, Elena is not interested in seeing Victor and tells him to leave. Finally she gets a gun and orders him to leave. Enraged, Victor wrestles the gun from her, and in the process, Elena gets knocked out, and the gun goes off.
A neighbor hears the shot and calls police, and two cops respond to the report. The older cop Sancho (José Sancho) is an unstable...
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