Law of Desire

Almodovar has the same daring, virtuoso command of the medium and the same ability to make a gay sensibility provide a perspective on all human foibles.

Los Angeles Times

Archive - Festival 37
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Spain 1987
80 minutes
Spanish
Subtitles in Hebrew, English

When porn director Pablo reluctantly breaks up with his boyfriend, Juan, he encourages him to stay in touch. Juan moves away to live in a lighthouse and eventually writes his ex, but in the meantime Pablo has taken up with a psychotic new lover, Antonio. Antonio intercepts their correspondence and flies into a towering rage, terrifying Pablo, but also inspiring him creatively as he writes an adaptation of Cocteau's monologue-play The Human Voice for his transsexual sister.

In Law of Desire, one of Pedro Almodóvar’s earlier films and his first collaboration with Antonio Banderas, we meet the filmmaker at his kinky best with a provocative, playful and erotic film.

Filmography: Broken Embraces (2009), Bad Education (2004), Talk to Her (2002), All About My Mother (1999), High Heels (1992), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988).

Two adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s play - The Human Voice by Pedro Almodóvar and L'amore Roberto Rossellini (1948) - are screened in the Festival’s program.

Director Pedro Almodóvar
Production Agustín Almodóvar, Miguel Ángel Pérez
Script Pedro Almodóvar
Cinematography Ángel Luis Fernández
Editing José Salcedo
Actors Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Miguel Molina, Fernando Guillén
Source Lev Cinemas Ltd.