Live Flesh (film)

Live Flesh Spanish Carne Trmula is a 1997 Spanish romantic drama thriller film, written and directed by Pedro Almodvar, starring Liberto Rabal, Javier Bardem, and Francesca Neri. The film is loosely based on Ruth Rendells book Live Flesh.

A neighbor hears the shot and calls the police and two cops respond to the report. The older cop, Sancho Jose Sancho, is an unstable alcoholic who suspects his wife Clara Angela Molina of infidelity. The younger cop, David Javier Bardem, more cleancut and sober, prefers to do things by the book. Through the window they catch sight of Victor physically struggling with Elena, and Sancho is ready to storm in, while David wants to call for a backup. When they enter, Victor holds Elena hostage with her gun. David tries to calm him down and get him to drop his gun, but Sancho sabotages his efforts by continually threatening Victor. Finally, David puts his gun to Sanchos head, gets him and Victor to put down their guns and orders Elena to flee. Sancho then lunges for Victor, they wrestle for the gun, and another shot rings out, hitting David.Two years later, Victor, in jail, watches a wheelchair basketball match the now partially paralyzed David is a star player in the 1992 Summer Paralympics, with Elena, who is now his wife, cheering him on from the sidelines. Victor has made good use of his time, taking a correspondence course in education, working out, and enriching his mind with a variety of subjects, including the Bible. Before he is released, another four years later, his mother dies and leaves him some money and a house in the slums. One of his first stops after he gets out of jail is his mothers grave, where he encounters Elena at her fathers funeral. While leaving the cemetery he meets Clara, Sanchos wife. ........

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