# Law of Desire (1987)

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**Original title**: *La ley del deseo*
**Runtime**: 102 min
**Genres**: Drama, Romance, Thriller, Comedy
**Directed by**: Pedro Almodóvar
**Written by**: Pedro Almodóvar
**Starring**: Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Miguel Molina, Fernando Guillén, Manuela Velasco

> *An Outrageously Funny Tale of Lust, Passion and Jealousy!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A Madrid apartment in midsummer, the hum of a refrigerator never quite drowning out the tapping of a typewriter. A celebrated film-maker, nursing a lover’s departure, casts his trans sister in a solo play and watches her command the stage. Then the uptight stranger starts calling collect from a phone booth across town.

Third-act fireworks from a director who still thinks the heart isn’t bulletproof.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, playful, sexy, tender

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