About this title: This Pedro Almodóvar melodrama examines how several lives are changed by a single gunshot. Adapting the novel Live Flesh by British mystery author Ruth Rendell, Almodóvar has given the material a Spanish makeover with added political thrust. Beginning in 1970 in Franco's Madrid, when a prostitute (Penelope Cruz) gives birth to a son, Victor, the story leaps forward to contemporary Madrid. Wealthy diplomat's daughter Elena (Francesca Neri) is watching Luis Buńuel's The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de La Cruz (1955) while waiting for the arrival of her heroin dealer, and she buzzes Victor ...
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Format: DVD
DVD region: 1
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Date: 04/10/2001
UPC:002761686042
Description: Liberto Rabal, Francesca Neri, Javier Bardem, Ángela Molina, José Sancho. Good. 1998 Run time: 103. #5 Ships 1st class mail to ensure speedy delivery. We professionally resurfaced to ensure picture quality! This dvd was PURCHASED from one of OUR customers! We ship 1st class mail to ensure speedy delivery. read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Widescreen
DVD region: 1
UPC:027616860422
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