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 Talk To Her (DVD)
 Talk To Her (DVD) ... DVD released 24 February, 2003 at Pathe Distribution / Features of the DVD: PAL, Widescreen / Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's Talk To Her is his least stylised, most accessible and arguably greatest movie. Covering the same, highly provocative terrain as Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle and The Smiths' "Girlfriend in a Coma", Almodovar forges a work that's funny, compassionate, engaging and deeply touching. Unusually for Almodovar, the emphasis is on the two male characters, with the female leads spending much of the film as "objects" in a vegetative state. Dario Grandinetti plays Marco, a journalist who befriends Lydia (Rosario Flores), a female bullfighter. Following a goring in the ring, she lapses into a coma. At the clinic where she is kept on life support, Marco meets a somewhat effete male nurse, Benigno (Javier Camara) who lovingly tends to a ballet student, Alicia, also chronically comatose. They strike up a friendship, their respective stories emerging through flashbacks. Both, however, respond to their common fate in different ways. Marco is distraught at the loss of Lydia, whereas the dysfunctional Benigno is blissful, tending to Alicia, for whom he nourished an obsession prior to accident. Reduced to being a vegetable, she is fully, unresistingly, his. It's a tribute to Almodovar that he is able to handle the outlandish, potentially appalling subject matter of Talk To Her with such finesse. Emotionally, it's often on a knife edge; there are moments when you don't know whether to laugh, gasp or sigh. But when ultimately you find yourself welling with tears of sympathy for an alleged rapist, you realise what a master filmmaker Almodovar is. On the DVD: Talk To Her offers an excellent transfer of a visually handsome movie. Extras are a little disappointing--just trailers for Almodovar's more outlandish Live Flesh and All About My Mother. --David StubbsNewest Review: ... himself has been looking after Alicia for several years and have grown a very emotional bonding with her. The film goes back ... more ... and forward in screenplay,to build the characters and relations initially and later to show how their lives intertwine. Its a film which talks of friendship and love,both in very different light.
I was actually expecting two equally intense love stories but found out it was more about Beningno's love for Alicia and Beningno's friendship with Marco which develops in the clinic and later strengthens as the film progresses after certain situations arise.
The concept is original and is well written.I have never ...more |
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Talk To Her (DVD): You need to TALK TO HER. (1146 words)
by - written on 22/02/09 (Very useful, 392 readings)
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*** Cast & Crew *** Director: Pedro Almodóvar Writer: Pedro Almodóvar Javier Cámara as Benigno Martín Darío Grandinetti as Marco Zuloaga Leonor Watling as Alicia Rosario Flores as Lydia González *** Plot *** Marco, who is a writer, has to do an article about Lydia, a woman-bull-fighter. They meet and then get along very well after that. Unfortunately, Lydia has had an accident in her bull fighting. Her cerebral cortex is completely destroyed. But the brain is intact. She is in coma and taken care by Marco. Alicia has been in coma since 4 years ago - after a car accident. She is taken care by ... Read the complete review
Labours of Love (624 words)
by - written on 18/07/09 (Very useful, 85 readings)
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A 2002 Oscar-winner, Pedro Almodovar's Talk to Her (Hable con Ella) is a story of love, friendship and loneliness with an initially obscured dark side. Marco and Benigno are very different characters - the realist and the fantasist - with significant common ground. The women they love are both in comas in the private clinic where Benigno works and the pair meet, victims of a car-crash and a bull-goring (an occupational hazard of bull-fighting, I suppose) respectively. Marco is a stoic character, struggling to come to terms with his girlfriend Lydia's state, spending hours in pained silence at her bedside. "Talk to her," Benigno urges, believing in a ... Read the complete review
Talk To Her (DVD): Talk to her-Only for foreign film lovers (432 words)
by - written on 05/11/09 (Very useful, 31 readings)
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This is a film that i wanted to watch for a long time.The name might be familiar if you came accross a variety of "Must watch film" lists.Winner of Original Screenplay in 2003 oscars and being nominated for best director, I had huge expectations from it. The film starts off in a theater where Beningno and Marco are in the audience.Months later,Beningno recognizes Marco in the clinic where he works as a nurse.He comes to know Marco's girlfriend has been admitted in the coma in the same hospital.Beningno himself has been looking after Alicia for several years and have grown a very emotional bonding with her. The film goes back and forward in ... Read the complete review
Men in love with women in comas... (443 words)
by - written on 11/06/09 (Very useful, 28 readings)
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"Talk to her" is a Spanish film (with subtitles) by Pedro Almodovar. The film is about two men who fall in love with women in comas. One man, Benigno, is a nurse who has watched a woman from afar while she takes dance classes. He watches her from his window, and one day has the courage to talk to her. The woman, Alicia, has a father who is a psychiatrist, and Benigno made an appointment to see him, even though he hasn't got any problems, just to see Alicia. One day, she gets run over and falls into a coma. Benigno is the nurse in charge of looking after her, and eventually falls in love with her. It is obvious how much he cares about her- he cleans and ... Read the complete review
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