The 34thFrench Cinepanorama7, 16/1
Broadway Cinematheque
Law of Desire
慾望之規條
1987
/ Color 彩色 / 102 mins
Spanish 西班牙語
English and Chinese Subtitles
中、英文字幕
Director 導演：
Pedro Almodovar 艾慕．杜華
Cast 演員：
Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas
于史比奧．龐西拿、卡門．莫娜 、安東尼奧．班特拉斯
Law of Desire has a scene of Carmen Maura playing on stage,
which is the extract of Cocteau's play, The Human Voice .
In the play, Cocteau visualizes the archetype of love despair, which
predominantly appears in his works, that a man does not respond to
anything anymore his lover said on phone. Conversation becomes monologue.
Almodovar transplants this despair into Law of Desire , by
suggesting the collapse of relationship of the gay director, Paolo,
with his bisexual lover and the young and passionate Antonio. It offers
an exhilarating romp detailing the erotic adventures of them as the
story accelerates into the tragic finale.
Law of Desire is
the work Almodovar shares most of Cocteau's attitude towards love and
relationship, it also explains why Almodovar often recalls that Cocteau
is indeed a role model for his filmmaking.
艾慕．杜華曾經說過，他的模範導演正是尚．高克多。
於是 ， 他出道不久 ， 便干脆的將高克多的劇作《 The Human Voice 》搬進他的電影裡。《慾望之規條》的 Carmen
Maura ，在台上表演的正是這齣劇作，劇中的戀人，獨佔虛空，等待另外的一半重投懷抱，那份失落，那份傍徨，便是高克多描寫失戀的典型。
艾慕．杜華借此烘托戲中的戀人們，無條件不留餘地盡情愛到底，最終換來的就是這份失落，不論是戲中的同志導演愛上不回音的小男生，還是熱情青年熱戀同志導演不果，因愛成恨的惡作劇，統統都是人性的聲音、慾望之規條。