Review of Live Flesh

The Almodovar films are definitely getting better as we proceed through the cannon. This one has a plot, decent characters...everything that you expect from a film really. Sufficient dramatic tension, and still beautifully shot.

I can't help wondering how Elena goes from junkie to respectable philanthropic benefactress and wife of paralympic basketball star during the seven years Victor is away in prison, or how she'd been such a lowlife in the first place given that her father was an Italian diplomat, but it's part of the strength of the film that you don't wonder about this at the time. Javier Bardem is great as the basketball star. Lots of twists, not all equally plausible, but not absurd like the earlier films.

Watched via laptop and cable, having obtained via informal distribution.