El ley del deseo (1987, Pedro Almodóvar)

I saw most of Almodóvar's films last year, but then I was too lazy to make nots. The result is that now I confuse most of his films. I want to re-watch some of his films, at least as they become available to me.
Pablo (Eusebio Poncela) is in a kind of relationship with Juan (Miguel Molina, only a supporting role). Antonio (Antonio Banderas) gets infatuated with Pablo, they start a wild affair, but for Pablo it's only a physical thing. - Pablo has a transgender brother, who is now called Tina (Carmen Maura).
Antonio is developing a serious jealousy and kills Juan. - After an accident Pablo has temporarily amnesia and Antonio starts an affair with Tina.
And so on. This sounds like the plot of an opera or maybe rather a comic book, but still -- Almodóvar exaggerates, yes, but he also explores. He explores the boundaries of love. He explores where physical attraction transcends into lust and when lust becomes love. He explores how it feels to love somebody who only loves  to be loved. And he sketches how it feels how it feels when you realize that you will never be loved more than by the pers on whom you just have lost. Almodóvar uses a thick brush, his characters are on the extreme side of life, always trying to make most out of life.
Unfortunately this implies in many of his films the use of drugs. This is the one thing I really hate about his films, that many persons use drugs, that happiness is an artificial dream. We never see any damaging effect, only the anesthetic effect to blend out reality. Another recurrent theme is the Catholic Church. Tina used to be a chorus boy in a church and the priest remembers that boy very well. In Almodóvar's films priests are very often very fond of boys.
So, in spite of the melodramatic tendency in this film, I still like it. It may be one of Almodóvar's most personal films, maybe a film about himself (?), as he doesn't tell the story of a woman.
In short: anybody who ever loved passionately must be able to recognize something in this film. This does not look like a film that was shot 30 years ago.
9/10

Was this the inspiration for Desde allá?

Dubbing of an xxx-rated movie

Antonio - aiming from the beginning

Juan is off for summer holidays

Pablo and Juan had a good time

Women and cleaning - a chapter in the films of Almodóvar

This is what the fans of Antonio BAnderas were waiting for

Pablo and Antonio relax

Iconic scene!

Antonio meets his rival

The Lighthouse of Trafalgar

Antonio gets rid of evidence

Police is self-confident

A new triangle: Pablo, Antonio, Tita

Pablo will never again  be loved so passionately