Talk to Her
(2002)
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Talk to Her
(2002)
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Javier Cámara | ... | ||
Darío Grandinetti | ... | ||
Leonor Watling | ... | ||
Rosario Flores | ... | ||
Mariola Fuentes | ... |
Rosa
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Geraldine Chaplin | ... | ||
Pina Bausch | ... |
Bailarina 'Café Müller'
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Malou Airaudo | ... |
Bailarine 'Café Müller' (Dancer)
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Caetano Veloso | ... |
Singer at party - "Cucurrucucú Paloma"
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Roberto Álvarez | ... |
Doctor Vega
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Elena Anaya | ... |
Ángela
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Lola Dueñas | ... |
Matilde
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Adolfo Fernández | ... |
Niño de Valencia
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Ana Fernández | ... |
Hermana de Lydia
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Chus Lampreave | ... |
After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet student. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny. Written by Anonymous
Rating **** out of ****
Spanish Writer-Director Pedro Almodovar is a filmmaker that always captures strange, and honest moments within his characters emotions-especially women. Such films as "All About My Mother", and "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" support this, but in Almodovar's latest film "Talk To Her"--he does something a little different by making men the protagasnits. It's brilliant, unique, and creative filmmaking at its best. However beneath all the brilliance is a lovely, sweet film that is charming in its own little way.
Almodovar crafts "Talk to Her" with a style that is unique in color and tone, and it has behavioral exposition that is far more mature and tonally sustained than anything he's done before. But the plot is insane as anything that Almodovar's has done before, which makes the movie more of a career-peak change, its a masterpiece constructed on the solid foundation of everything he's previously tried and learned. The movie's great, bad-boy conceit is that its two heroes, wounded-in-love journalist Marco (Dario Grandinetti) and naive nurse Benigno (Javier Camara), are hopelessly in love with women they can't communicate with -- and that really gives the two guys something to talk about, as well as a base for the strongest of friendships. Not that their women are intentionally unreachable; both, you see, are in comas.
By the end of this crazy, heart-thrilling tale, Almodovar has delivered us through un unexpecting film of humor, human emotions, specific human connections, remorse, and philosophies. "Talk to Her" is more than just a run of a talked about foreign film, and having Oscar-Nomination potential-it is one of the best movies of 2002.