The Saturday Night Drive-In:

This Week’s Featured Film: Live Flesh (Carne Tremula) (1997, Spain, dir. Pedro Almodovar)
When: Saturday, March 15th, 6:00 PM
Where: The Shakti Center office, Besant Nagar
Running Time: 120 Minutes
Language: Spanish (with English subtitles)

Summary:
A classic entry in the Almodovar canon, Live Flesh (loosely based on the English mystery novel by Ruth Rendell) is a film about passion, desire, and betrayal set in post-Franco Spain. A young man named Victor Plaza (Liberto Rabal) is in love with Elena (Francesca Neri), the junkie daughter of a wealthy diplomat. The two meet in a hotel, but Elena wants him to leave and threatens him with a gun. As they wrestle, the gun goes off, attracting the attention of two cops, Sancho (Jose Sancho) and David (Javier Bardem, of No Country For Old Men fame). Victor is arrested and sent to jail. The film then leaps forward four years to Victor's release from prison, upon which he discovers that Elena (whom he is still in love with) has cleaned up and is now married to David, the police officer who has arrested him. What follows is an elaborate melodrama of manipulation, betrayal, and exposed secrets in which the fate and complicity of each character is inextricably linked to all the others.

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