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Truly Dreadful Film

I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Pablo Quintero makes sexually explicit homosexual films. Antonio (Antonio Banderas) is an obsessed fan and they have a fling. Pablo still keeps Juan as his boyfriend. Antonio becomes ever more disturbing. Pablo's sister Tina is a transgender female aspiring actress raising their niece Ada whose mother has gone away.This is an early Antonio Banderas and I love his energy. He has a magnetic cinematic presence. I wish the lead actor is equal to him. He's a little blah but his character could have been something great. This could be a great movie about Antonio. It ends up more as a lesser movie about Pablo.

I just can't take to Almodovar. Much of this seems less like a parody or pastiche of a bad afternoon soap and more like a very poor example of one. There's something interesting in the typewriter being the source of all the trouble, but having a dramatis personae so near to his own circle smacks of indulgence to my eye. A bit of a yawner, all in all.The best shot - of a young man making love with his own mirror image comes from Genet's ballet Adam Miroir, and the idea that Banderas' love is a "crime" are ripped off wholesale from Genet's general point of view. But I reckon the old French thief would have found Almodovar's middle-class outrage aesthetic pretty distasteful. Almoldovar's main audience is Blairite nebulous Third Way, Guardian-reading home owners. This plays at subversion whilst actually flattering a very wealthy demographic.

This is one of my favorite Almodovar movies. I was amazed at the level of acting and the quality of the script. As always full of sex and full of demonization towards the Catholic Church and its "celibate" priests. Pedro Almodovar usually tells the untold story of the church in Spain in a way that's always cynical and objective. The relationships of love between two men are what most of his most celebrated films are about. Love, sex, murder, and all of the sins of the flesh are also present in this film. In conclusion, this film possesses all of the qualities of a great Almodovar movie. LA LEY DEL DESEO is a Truly Amazing Movie. 10 Stars!!!

This is my second favourite Almodovar film, after "Hable con Ella". It reveals the depth of the characters' feelings with such subtlety and delicacy that as viewers we find ourselves unable to judge the characters' actions. We are puzzled by the intensity of their desire, love and misery in the same way that we are puzzled by Benigno's deep loneliness and longing for love in "Hable con Ella". In "La ley del Deseo," murder and suicide become extreme natural consequences of the characters' love and suffering. We cannot condemn the murder any more than we can condemn the rape in "Hable con Ella".