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Talk to Her

Talk to Her (2002)

December. 25,2002
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7.9
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R
| Drama Romance

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

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The_Prodigal_One
2002/12/25

Love is the saddest thing when it goes away, like that Jobim song, Marco says to Lydia. He is describing his last failed relationship, Lydia says she needs to talk to him as he has been talking throughout their conversation, he smiles and agrees to talk later, it never happens.This is a Almodovar film and as the ballet teacher says 'nothing is simple'. We are introduced to Marco and Benigno who are sat together at theatre watching Piña Baush production. Marco starts crying and Benigno stares at him, these two men are the centre of the film.Benigno is a male nurse who works in the coma patients department. There he cares for Alicia a ballet dancer. He talks to her when he cleans her, manicures her nails, cuts her hair and when he massages her. He thinks she is listening to him, it is his version of a relationship.Marco meets Lydia who is a female bullfighter, she has just come out of a relationship, when Marco watches her taming a bull he feels attracted to her. He kills a snake for her and she feels attracted to him. It does lead us to think, is Marco attracted to vulnerable women that he can rescue? Marco goes to her next bullfight but Lydia is gored and ends up in a coma. On visiting her in hospital he and Benigno meet, they immediately become friends.There are the usual touches of Almodovar in the film, the dreamlike sequences and Alberto Iglesias music but there is also scene of the cleaning of patients which is almost scientific as is the close up of Lydia putting on her bullfighter suit. There is also a short film within which Benigno describes to Alicia, which we find out leads to a startling action.This is where the film takes a turn and it leads us to a point of moral dilemma, which you will need to see to judge for yourself. Hats off for the way it is done as it could have gone a different way.I enjoyed the film, it is thought proving and the acting is well done, particularly Javier Camara as Benigno, who is on top form.

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samba_blue
2002/12/26

This film so intensely dehumanizes comatose women and so romanticizes and apologizes for rapists that you see all these nauseating reviews applauding it. People get so sucked in that they are not even realizing what they are watching - the rape of patients in comas. Read that again. This is manipulative filmmaking at it's WORST. Sickening and insulting to abuse victims.

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Rickting
2002/12/27

Talk to Her, directed by Pedro Almodovar, is about the friendship between 2 men caring for 2 comatose women. With TTH, go in knowing very little about the plot and brave yourselves. This movie is an emotionally devastating juggernaut full of gut-wrenching story beats, moral ambiguity and meticulously constructed themes. Although TTH takes a little while to get going and certain things feel a bit illogical, once it hits its stride you'll be unable to look away. While the performances are all around excellent, the star of the show is Almodovar. His script is disturbing, haunting, moving and never boring, and the way he constructs the movie visually is brilliant but also ingeniously subtle, meaning he doesn't resort to loads of flashy visuals to tell the story. It's a film which rewards repeat viewings enormously, and the film is so layered and complex that you'll constantly be re-interpreting the film and noticing new details. TTH is a really excellent drama and an unusually intelligent one at that. It shows an auteur at the top of his game and to study and analyse the film is like studying and analysing a great novel. It's a film that's really worth checking out, just don't read any spoilers beforehand. It may not be a thriller, but it will leave you breathless.9/10

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gavin6942
2002/12/28

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.Pedro Almodovar has consistently made good films. This may not be his very best, or perhaps not even his second best, but with all his films being top-notch it still remains worth seeing.Where else can you see a film with the emotion of hope in the face of a woman with PVS? Americans today (2015) still remember Terri Schiavo and the torment it takes for a family to wait or pull the plug.As a bonus, we also get some very inventive silent film-style intertitles.

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