Law of Desire

Haifa Classics

"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.