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Live Flesh
MEANRANK
74/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1655
- IMDb #1588
- Rotten Tomatoes #1327
- Metacritic #1434
- Letterboxd #1469
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2070
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1035
- Metacritic Critics #1577
- Metacritic Audience #1281
- Criticker #741
- Kinopoisk #1242
- AlloCiné #1914
- Trakt #2541
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 61, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 86.
See the most agreed on films →A young man's life is irrevocably changed after a reckless incident involving a gunshot leads to a police officer being paralyzed and his own imprisonment. Years later, he is released from jail, burning with a desire for revenge against the officer he holds responsible for his lost years. He devises a complex plan of retaliation that involves seducing the officer's wife, but his scheme leads to unexpected and dangerous emotional entanglements.
Details
- Director
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Based on
- Live Flesh by Ruth Rendell
- Studio
- France 3 Cinéma, El Deseo, CiBy 2000
- Released
- 10 October 1997
- Country
- Spain, France
- Language
- Spanish, Italian, Bulgarian
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $1.0M
- Box office
- $4.7M
- Awards
- 1 win, 5 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (21) →
Awards & nominations
See all 6 →1 major award won · 1 win from 6 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| 12th Goya Awards 1998 | Best Supporting Actor | José Sancho | Winner |
| 12th Goya Awards 1998 | Best Actor | Javier Bardem | Nominee |
| 12th Goya Awards 1998 | Best Supporting Actress | Ángela Molina | Nominee |
| 52nd British Academy Film Awards 1999 | Best Film Not in the English Language | Nominee | |
| 11th European Film Awards 1998 | Best Film | Nominee | |
| 11th European Film Awards 1998 | Best European Actor | Javier Bardem | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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6 awards — Live Flesh
×| Best Supporting Actor | José Sancho | Winner |
| Best Actor | Javier Bardem | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress | Ángela Molina | Nominee |
| Best European Actor | Javier Bardem | Nominee |
| Best Film | Nominee |
| Best Film Not in the English Language | Nominee |