Talk to Her (2002)
92 %
Reviews Counted: 127 Fresh: 117 Rotten:10 Average Rating: 8.1/10
Consensus:
Another masterful, compassionate work from Pedro Almodovar.
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Theatrical Release: Nov 22, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $9,031,416
Synopsis: The curtain before the stage, decorated with salmon colored roses and golden tassels, opens to present a Pina Bausch dance spectacle, "Café Müller". Among the spectators, two men are sitting together by chance, they don't know each other. They are Benigno, a young nurse, and Marco, a... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Javier Camara, Dario Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores, Geraldine Chaplin
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Screenwriter: Pedro Almodóvar
Producer: Agustin Almodovar
Composer: Alberto Iglesias
Screenwriter: Pedro Almodóvar
Producer: Agustin Almodovar
Composer: Alberto Iglesias
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Reviews
Almodovar uses the characters' unlikely predicaments to show how we define ourselves by narration, but his story is so overdetermined that ultimately the two men seem as constrained as their brain-dead sweethearts.
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01/11/08
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The film combines sensuality, spirituality and sheer joy in storytelling in marvellously harmonious proportions.
02/09/06
I found it slow to get into. But I hung in there and am glad I did because eventually it grabbed me and I ended up enjoying it.
10/07/04
Very few directors could get away with making a film like this, but Almodovar not only gets away with it, he delivers a masterpiece.
08/07/04
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Almodovar continues to refine the form of melodrama ... without sacrificing one iota of emotional texture or resonance.
05/10/04
It’s another wild yet thoughtful look at the meaning of life and sexuality from Almodovar.
06/17/03
Even when Aldomovar is obviously showing off, we're convinced that he cares.
05/22/03
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Like all his [Pedro Almodovar's] work, it's jarring and provocative to say the least.
04/05/03
The offbeat beauty of Almodovar's script lies in its seductive combination of grieving, sensuality, fantasy and passion. Almodovar is incapable of creating dull characters...
03/29/03
'Almodóvar logra un filme entrańable, lleno de compasión, comprensión, amor, amistad, esperanza y humanidad que es sencillamente inolvidable.'
03/21/03
After an interminable wait, in which it seemed that nobody in Hollywood would have the nerve to make a film about brain-dead ballerinas, gored female bullfighters and the men who love them, finally there's one to recommend - Pedro Almodovar's "Talk to Her
03/20/03
One of the strangest, most heavily layered and assured films that Almodovar has ever made -- possibly his masterpiece -- sly, funny, incredibly convoluted and, ultimately, almost devastatingly moving.
03/19/03
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