Live Flesh

The Almodóvar season continues, and happily we have a much better result tonight. Again, a romantic fairy-tale, but this time structured around an erotic thriller type plot. I LOVED it. A whole mesh of connections sweeps you along at breakneck speed. And the thing throbs with soapy, over-the-top melodrama. Thrilling.

A lot of ideas in Live Flesh were carried over from last night's Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, and I just want to note some of them down for future reference:

• Catholic imagery used in the opening of the film.
  
• A disabled character pining after a beautiful woman, and getting all jealous.
  
• The hero being an innocent sweetheart, released from some correctional institution.
• The hero smitten by one-night-stand. Brushed off, but wins the girl through good deeds.
  
• Also by being a demon in the sack. Love underpinned by an intense sexual connection.

We'll see if they crop up in film number three...