Pedro Almodavar today is considered one of the major directors & screenplay and story writers.Law & Desire was only his sixth film effort.This early effort (1987) was & still is an ADULT NC 17 rated film. The sex scenes between the 2 MALE stars are very hot & steamy. The director is known for his very explicit sex scenes both 'hetero & homo', They are always done in good taste, I wish some other directors in current films would show such good taste & edit there steamy sex scenes in the same way that Almovadar does.Euserbio Ponsela & Carmen Maura star as brother and sister. He is a film director who has a penchant for other males. One of which is Antonio Bandaras, both actors are very handsome etc.We all know that Antonio now is one of Hollywood's big stars. Euserbio never made a Hollywood film BUt still is a name performer in Spain.Carmen Maura was & still is an international STAR of high caliber.The film is a murder mystery as well.Almodavar's more recent film are of a much higher caliber, This however is a first rate very well acted & made film.Ratings: *** (out of 4) 87 points (out of 100) IMDb 8 (out of 10)

I just can't take to Almodovar. Much of this seems less like a parody or pastiche of a bad afternoon soap and more like a very poor example of one. There's something interesting in the typewriter being the source of all the trouble, but having a dramatis personae so near to his own circle smacks of indulgence to my eye. A bit of a yawner, all in all.The best shot - of a young man making love with his own mirror image comes from Genet's ballet Adam Miroir, and the idea that Banderas' love is a "crime" are ripped off wholesale from Genet's general point of view. But I reckon the old French thief would have found Almodovar's middle-class outrage aesthetic pretty distasteful. Almoldovar's main audience is Blairite nebulous Third Way, Guardian-reading home owners. This plays at subversion whilst actually flattering a very wealthy demographic.

I saw this film after having seen Bad Education, and there are many plot lines similar in both. I loved this film, not only am I a huge fan of Almodóvar, but in this film, the easy and simple beauty of the shots stood out. The acting was good, not amazing but good, particularly from Pablo and Tina. As well as directing beautifully, Almodóvar knows how to infuse a scene with sex, even if no sex is actually taking place-for example, when Antonio lights his cigarette of Pablo's. The film does become melodramatic towards the end, but I don't see this as a failing, melodrama, if done well, as it is here, need not be ridiculous

You shouldn't believe everything you read on video boxes. It is not a "riotous comedy," it's a deeply moving meditation on desire, from physical desire to the highest kinds of love. All of the characters are searching for it, and one of the questions raised by the movie is "What is it worth?" The final scene, in which Antonio and Pablo are in the apartment, just before Antonio kills himself, is the the linchpin of the movie. Love is serious, it is not a game, and love is worth dying for. That is why Pablo throws the typewriter out the window--everything he has written hasn't been worth the paper it is written on because it assumes that love is merely a toy. In the final scene, when Pablo takes up the dead Antonio in his arms and weeps, the visual image is a lamentation, like the Renaissance paintings of Mary holding Christ in her arms after he has been brought down from the cross. Of course it is funny too in places, but funny in a way that elaborates on and deepens the main theme of the movie, "What is love worth." What Antonio teaches Pablo is that love is worth everything. What you may have been confused by is the tone of the movie, which is operatic. This is not about an investigation of individual character. Like much opera, it investigates a deeply felt--and confusing--human emotion. It is one of the great gay movies, perhaps the greatest one.