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...
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 forty-something writer. On the stage, filled with wooden chairs and tables, two women, their eyes closed and their arms stretched, are moving to the compasses of "The Fairy Queen" by Henry Purcell. The piece provokes such emotion that Marco breaks into tears. Benigno notices the shining tears of his casual companion in the darkness of the theatre's audience. He would like to tell him that he too is moved by the performance, but he doesn't dare.
Months later, the two men meet again at "El Bosque", a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend, a bullfighter by profession, has been gored by a bull and has fallen into a coma. Benigno in fact is in charge of another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet student.
When Marco passes by Alicia's room, Benigno approaches him. It is the beginning of an intense friendship, as linear as a roller coaster.
During the time suspended within the walls of the clinic, the life of these four characters flows in all directions, past, present and future, leading all of them to an unexpected destiny.
TALK TO HER is a story about the friendship of two men, about loneliness and the long convalescence of the wounds provoked by passion. It is also a film about incommunication among couples, and about communication. About film as a subject of conversation. About how monologues before a silent person can become an effective form of dialogue. About silence as "eloquence of the body", about film as an ideal vehicle/language in relationships between people, about how a film told in words can stop time and install itself in the lives of those who tell it and those who hear it.
TALK TO HER is a film about the joy of narration and about the word as a weapon against solitude, disease, death and madness. It is also a film about madness, about a type of madness so close to tenderness and common sense that it does not diverge from normality. -- © Sony Pictures Classics
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