Live Flesh is a 1997 Spanish romantic drama thriller film, written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Liberto Rabal, Javier Bardem, and Francesca Neri. The film is loosely based on Ruth Rendell's book Live Flesh. Madrid, Christmas 1970: with the nation under a state of emergency ordered by the Franco regime, a young prostitute, Isabel Plaza Caballero , gives birth on a bus to a son she names Victor. Twenty years later, Victor Plaza shows up for a date he made with Elena , a junkie 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 out of the flat. Enraged, Victor wrestles the gun from her; in the process Elena gets knocked out, and the gun goes off. A neighbor hears the shot and calls the police; and two cops respond to the report. The older cop, Sancho , is an unstable alcoholic who suspects his wife Clara of infidelity. The younger cop, David , more clean-cut and sober, prefers to do things by the book.
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| Release date: | October 29, 1997 |
| Directed by: | Pedro Almodóvar |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 103 Minutes |
| Editor: | José Salcedo |
| Music by: | Alberto Iglesias |
| Cinematography: | Affonso Beato |
| Screenplay by: | Pedro Almodóvar, Ray Loriga, Jorge Guerricaechevarría |
| Adapted from: | Live Flesh |
| Genre: | Thriller |