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Átame! (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!) (1990)

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"I'll never love you . . . ever!" the sexy and attractive Marina (Victoria Abril) states emphatically to the love-struck Ricky (Antonio Banderas). You know she means what she says because when she makes this statement she is handcuffed and lashed to a bed, not exactly the proper way to warm anyone up for romance. Yet in Pedro Almodovar's Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! the way to a woman's heart is depicted as being held in captivity until the Stockholm Syndrome kicks in. The film concerns the plight of

Dec 12, 2000

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Mr. Almodovar's comic invention runs out too soon, leaving the audience to giggle weakly in anticipation of the big laughs and disorienting shocks that never arrive.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times
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A writer-director driven by his passion, Almodovar allows his movies to moan and sweat and writhe. Sex looks like sex, not pornographic but messy and warm. The curtains do not billow, the sheets burn.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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Almodovar's polarities are so perfectly lined up in opposition to my own that it is quite possible for one of his movies to shoot right through my brain without striking a single cell.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
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Though this controversial film about romantic, sado-masochistic love in the hetero world is weak and ultimately disappointing, it's still worth seeing for understanding Almodovar's evolution.

July 17, 2011 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
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One of those movies that makes you laugh if you sit back and absorb the entire absurd situation at once.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Combustible Celluloid

Typically nutty and passionate Almodovar

April 21, 2006
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

An off-kilter - and off-putting - mix of humor, sex, and Stockholm Syndrome obsession.

May 4, 2005 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness
Lessons of Darkness

Psychodrama and dark humor flow freely from this setup.

October 1, 2003 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle
Austin Chronicle

Perhaps its greatest truth comes from two of its characters watching a movie in production: one notes that the film is more a love story than a horror story. Replies the movie's director, 'Sometimes the two are indistinguishable.'

August 5, 2003 Full Review Source: James Sanford on Film
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Audience Reviews for Átame! (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!)

Wow! Almodovar is a master at finding humor and romance in the most unlikely places.
January 9, 2009
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My kind of love story...
April 7, 2008
bookmunki

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    1. Ricki: I had to kidnap you so you'd get to know me. I'm sure you'll get to love me as I love you.
    – Submitted by Zaenal A (13 months ago)
    1. Ricki: If you're untied, will you escape?
    2. Marina Osorio: I don't know. You'd better tie me up.
    – Submitted by Maria Y (17 months ago)

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