Film: Live Flesh

With its beautiful name, Carne Tremula, I was looking forward to seeing this film. I hadn't realised its position in the Almodovar canon, so was expecting a fun romp; I saw a magnificent human drama full of compassion, colour and life. It is perhaps the film that starts Almodovar's latest period of a fully realised vision of total cinema - full of the breath of life and the tragedies and beauties that go with it.