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TALK TO HER (Hable Con Ella)Country: Spain "Full of lovely, sweet suffering. You can’t get it out of your heart." – Elvis Mitchell, The New York Times
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| Months later, the two men meet again at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco’s girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. Improbably, as it happens, Benigno is also looking after a woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet student. It’s the start of an intense friendship. Marco, lost in his silent vigil at Lydia’s side, receives valuable caregiving guidance from Benigno, who advises Marco to simply “talk to her”. So begins an extraordinary ironic journey of loneliness and friendship, detachment and passion, captivity and spiritual awakening - all in Almodovar’s fabled, visually stunning style. His concoction of stark honesty and delightful fancy is as effortless and intoxicating as ever, yet, with TALK TO HER, Almodovar, achieves new layers of soulful richness. For all its trademark twists and turns, TALK TO HER is perhaps Almodovar’s most accessible film, destined to enjoy a wider appeal then many of his previous storied escapades.
"Open-ended and composed of layer upon layer, Talk to Her is a cinephile's feast, an invitation to countless interpretations." - Film Journal International |
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Featured at the 2002 Cannes and Toronto film festivals,
acclaimed filmaker, Pedro Almodovar (ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER),
brings his dazzling talents to a new cinematic experience
that again digs deeply into the human condition. Benigno,
a young male nurse, and Marco, an Argentinian 40-year-old
travel writer, meet by chance at a theatrical presentation
of a Pina Bausch spectacle. Benigno covertly observes
how profondly Marco is moved by the performance but
doesn’t dare confide that he is equally moved.