All About My Mother
2000
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Dec 25, 2002 · “Talk to Her” combines improbable melodrama (gored bullfighters, comatose ballerinas) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensational denouements, and yet at the end, we are undeniably touched. No director since Fassbinder has been able to evoke such complex emotions with such problematic material.
Male nurse Benigno (Javier Cámara) becomes infatuated with a complete stranger when he watches dancer Alicia (Leonor Watling) practicing from the anonymity of his apartment. After being injured ...
- (137)
- Pedro Almodóvar
- R
- Javier Cámara
Talk to Her: Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. With Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores. Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
- (118K)
- Drama, Mystery, Romance
- Pedro Almodóvar
- 2003-02-14
Aug 8, 2002 · An unexpected companionship begins when the strangely childlike Benigno suggests to the grieving Dario: "Talk to her". Almodóvar's 14th feature is an effortlessly accomplished and richly resonant...
The camaraderie of two men caring for women they love in comas is the center of Almodóvar's stunningly poignant film, Talk to Her. After recently viewing Almodóvar's stupendous film All about my Mother, I was anxious to see his subsequent work.
Nov 22, 2002 · Marco is a journalist specializing in tourist guides, Benigno a generous, perfect nurse. The latter has been taking care of Alicia, a (former) dancer, in a coma for four years. Marco has an affair with Lidya, a torera, who soon reaches Alicia in the same hospital, reduced in turn to a coma.
Jan 1, 2000 · Talk To Her Review. Male nurse Benigno and a sentimental travel writer, Marco, form an unusual friendship due to the fact that their girlfriends are both in comas in the hospital. However,...
