La Ley Del Deseo
Original spanish poster
Directed by	Pedro Almodóvar
Written by	Pedro Almodóvar
Starring	Antonio Banderas Carmen Maura Eusebio Poncela
Release date(s)	February 7, 1987 (Spain)
Running time	102 Min
Language	Spanish
IMDb profile

La ley del deseo (English: Law of Desire) is a 1987 film by Pedro Almodóvar. Considered to be Almodóvar's first explicitly gay film, it focuses on a complex love triangle between three men. It follows the more serious tone set by his film Matador, exploring the ways in which society represses an individual's true desires with tragic consequences. Image File history File links La_ley_del_deseo. ... Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (pronounced ) (born September 24, 1949) is a Spanish filmmaker. ... Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (pronounced ) (born September 24, 1949) is a Spanish filmmaker. ... José Antonio Domínguez Bandera (born August 11, 1960 in Málaga, Spain), better known as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish film actor. ... Carmen Maura Carmen Maura is a Spanish actress. ... February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (pronounced ) (born September 24, 1949) is a Spanish filmmaker. ... Homosexuality refers to sexual and romantic attraction between two individuals of the same sex. ... Matador (1986, Spanish for killer) is a film by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar about a student matador, Ángel (Antonio Banderas), who confesses to murders he didnt commit and begins a romance with his lawyer, María (Assumpta Serna). ...

Plot

Pablo Quintero (Eusebio Poncela) is a homosexual film director whose latest work has just been released. In a party after the premiere he meets Antonio (Antonio Banderas), a beautiful young man who is obsessed with him. At the end of the evening they go home together and Antonio experiences anal sex for the first time, but while Pablo considers that happening just a lusty episode and is still in love with his long-time lover Juan, the young man misunderstands his intentions and reveals his possessive behaviour as a lover. Since its coinage, the word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings. ... Premiere, from French language première meaning first, generally means a first performance. Premieres for theatrical, musical, and other productions are often extravagant affairs, attracting large numbers of socialites and much media attention. ... José Antonio Domínguez Bandera (born August 11, 1960 in Málaga, Spain), better known as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish film actor. ... Roman men having anal sex. ... Lust is any intense desire or craving, usually sexual, although it is also common to speak of a lust for life, lust for blood (bloodlust for short), or a lust for power or other goals. ... Possessive can refer to: Possessive case Possessive pronoun This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Parallel to this is told the dramatic story of Pablo's sister Tina (Carmen Maura), a struggling actress who once was a boy and changed sex to build an sexual relationship with her father, who eventually left her for another woman. Because of this, she hates men so much it is rumoured that she might be a lesbian. She also must care for her niece Ada, whose mother (Bibí Andersen) is not at home, whom she loves like a daughter. Carmen Maura Carmen Maura is a Spanish actress. ... A clownfish Sex change in animals Some species are known to change sex, including reproductive functions, in special circumstances, such as the clownfish. ... A lesbian is a female who is exclusively emotionally, sexually, romantically and/or aesthetically attracted to other females. ... This article is about the domestic group. ... Bibiana Fernández, also known as Bibí Andersen (February 13, 1954) is a Spanish transsexual actress and model. ...

The thrills begin when a jealous Antonio tries to rape Juan and ends up throwing him off a cliff. After confronting Antonio about the death, a devastated Pablo has an accident that causes a loss of memory. The police suspect both Tina and Pablo for the murder - only a sympathetic doctor keeps them at bay. Tina decides to reveal to Pablo why she is a transexual, and announces she has found a lover, who Pablo finds out too late is actually Antonio. Antonio holds Tina & Ada hostage in order to demand an hour alone with Pablo. A stunned and limping Pablo agrees, and experiences some tender moments with Antonio before he suddenly kills himself. The thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television that includes numerous, often-overlapping sub-genres. ... In psychology, memory is the ability of an organism to store, retain, and subsequently recall information. ... A transsexual (sometimes transexual) person establishes a permanent identity with the opposite gender to their assigned (usually at birth) sex. ...

Analysis

La ley del deseo is the movie that presented Almodóvar to the public, even if still full of transgression and unusual characters. The facts are presented in a melodramatic key and the dialogue is more like Hollywood cinema, with the exception of an evident honesty in displaying gay characters through a lens that is neither compassion nor fun nor desrespect. Gay people are treated just like every other presence in a movie whose target is wider than any previous release by the director, which kind of sensibility is proper of homosexual artists (another example is Rainer Werner Fassbinder). Transgression refers to an action that breaks some code or set of rules, that is, goes across or against basic assumptions or norms. ... A melodrama, in the broadest sense, is a serious drama that can be distinguished from tragedy by the fact that it is open to having a happy ending. ... ... For other uses, see Gay (disambiguation). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Since its coinage, the word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings. ... Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982) was a German movie director and actor, one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema. ...

Almodóvar has often said that his characters' actions are desire-ridden, so every catastrophe would be linked to the excess of passion of these figures, but it is clear that the fault goes to society, whose moral filter plunges the expression of individual into complete fear, making out of him a monster, unable of being himself in a world whose standards are (or look?) so different. Desire is a double-edged razor, and the modern world, still so closed-minded and old, brings us to release it in ways that sometimes are just too difficult to control. Look up desire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Human relationships within an ethnically diverse society. ... A moral is a one sentence remark made at the end of many childrens stories that expresses the intended meaning, or the moral message, of the tale. ... Fear is a basic emotional sensation and response system (feeling) initiated by an aversion to some perceived risk or threat. ... Look up desire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Interesting facts

• The theatre as a metaphor of reality, later used in his most famous movies like Todo sobre mi madre, appears here and is a landmark of the director's imagery. Even if the scenes shown may not be linked to the story, there is always an interesting relation to be found in them.

• La mala educación has a similar plot. The presence of gay directors in these movies is autobiographical and Almodóvar has often said that La mala educación was written a long time ago, and could have been made even in his early years. So the 2004 movie has to be considered in relation to all of his works, to find the relevant similarities in themes that in La mala educación are exploited, after the scandal of paedophile priests thematics like those have been able of having a bigger impact on the public.

Poster for Todo sobre mi madre All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre) is a 1999 film written and directed by the Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar, starring Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan and Penélope Cruz. ... Movie poster for Bad Education Bad Education (La mala educación) is a 2004 film by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar about two reunited childhood friends (and lovers) in the vein of an Alfred Hitchcock murder mystery. ... Movie poster for Bad Education Bad Education (La mala educación) is a 2004 film by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar about two reunited childhood friends (and lovers) in the vein of an Alfred Hitchcock murder mystery. ... Movie poster for Bad Education Bad Education (La mala educación) is a 2004 film by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar about two reunited childhood friends (and lovers) in the vein of an Alfred Hitchcock murder mystery. ... Pedophilia (American English) or paedophilia / pædophilia (British English), from the Greek &#960;&#945;&#953;&#948;&#959;&#966;&#953;&#955;&#953;&#945; (paidophilia) < &#960;&#945;&#953;&#962; (pais) boy, child and &#966;&#953;&#955;&#953;&#945; (philia) friendship, (ICD-10 F65. ... Roman Catholic priests in traditional clerical clothing. ...

Rating

The movies is currently rated NC-17 in the USA. The MPAA film rating system is a system used in the United States and instituted by the Motion Picture Association of America to rate a movie based on its content. ...