Talk To Her

Subconscious Speech
Talk to Her (Hable con ella) is Pedro Almodovar's sixteenth film as a director. It is difficult to describe the plot of the film as it travels back and forth in time, ranging from intense moments of psychological insight to an amusing silent film sequence, and I would loath to give away any of the entertaining and twisting plot development so characteristic of Almodovar's films. It primarily focuses on the relationship between two men: the antisocial, sexually ambiguous and lovingly charming Benigno (Javier Camara) and stalwart but emotional sensitive Marco (Dario Grandinetti) as they attend their respective women in permanent sleep at the hospital. A chance encounter at the theatre leads to a later encounter where a seemingly casual friendship grows into a desperate bond. Solitude is the predominant theme of this lively, entertaining and provoking film. There are countless moments for the protagonists to contemplate their life and loves alone. Despite its serious subject matter,...

Ballerina & Male Nurse, Female Matador & Writer & Silence
Another in a long line of outstanding Almodovar movies this flick does not dissapoint fans of his outlandish look at life. There are plenty of plot analysis reviews, controversy and interpretations so look around for the "right" one. What would a Almodovar movie be without ruffling a few feathers? The essence of the movie involves the lives of four people, two couples in love(one in a bizarre one way romance) where there are two women who end up in comas. It is a well done movie. There is a movie within a movie that is excellent, done in black and white in old silent movie style. The set designs in the black and while silent are magnificent and reveal a tragic love story where the "little man" (he takes a potion) makes the ultimate sacrifice to prove his love. This sequence is in itself worth viewing the movie. Besides the cinema itself the added features to the DVD are super. I thoroughly enjoyed Pedro Almodovar and Geraldine Chaplin as they discussed the...

Tell Her you Love Her
Pedro Almodovar has something different up his sleeve with his newest, "Talk to Her." Whereas in the past his concerns have been almost exclusively with a woman's mindset as in "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" or "All About My Mother," "Talk to Her" is about men and their inability to communicate, open up to their loved ones. Of course, being that Almodovar is a Spaniard, Machismo plays a big part in the world in which he lives, but here he is looking for the Universal; the things that bind us all together as Mankind. And what would seem a pretty basic theme in most directors' hands becomes in Almodovar's, a difficult, sympathetic and plaintive treatise rife with complexity and turmoil. Almodovar is never out for the easy fix. As one of the leads (Benigno played by Jose Camara), who has no problem showing his emotions, says to his counterpart (Marco played by Dario Grandinetti):"Talk to her...a woman's likes to feel that she is cared for and cherished." (paraphrase)
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