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Summary: Best Foriegn Film of the 2002
Review: Talk to Her has a tone that Hollywood movies usually cannot reach. It reveals information slowly throughout and lets you develop your own thoughts about the characters. You spend a great deal of the beginning trying to figure out if the main character is Marco or Benigno and then you realize it's really one big story. As is common in movies, you begin to sympathize with the characters, but here they do things to make you think twice about them, not unlike situations in real life where friends reveal their weaknesses. Marco and Benigno really occupy different facets of the male psyche. Marco is outwardly masculine, but sensitive to the point of tears in the right situations. Benigno is sexually ambiguous and cold emotionally, so his actions later are a big surprise. So while the movie seems to be about the women in these men's lives, it gradually becomes about the friendship they develop between themselves. The filmmaking is tremendous. The same idea could have been a tedious bore with the wrong director. I will certainly take this as a cue to see Pedro Almodovar's earlier films.
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Summary: Stunning and Twisted, This is Reality People.
Review: Once again, Pedro Almodovar has delivered yet another complex movie mended together by his visual style and great actors. The story is triggered off by Lydia (Rosario Flores, musician) , who as a female bullfighter, gets mauled in the coliseum during a fight, which leaves her in a coma. At her side, her lover Mauricio, stays uncomfortably with her at all times. Here we meet Benigno, a male nurse appointed to take care of Alicia, in a coma as well. Throughout the story, we sense that Mauricio seems to be attracted to the emotionally starved, which leads him to form a bond with Benigno, who apparently lives for Alicia. Once again, I give my hat off to Almodovar for creating a movie made by the characters, rather than situations. From the beginning, Pedro gives us outcomes first, then the causes, a style that works so well that by the end, you feel the characters truly exist. By doing this, our minds begin to actually feel FOR the character, even if by theory, the character deserves no mercy. THAT is the incredible and unique style of Pedro Almodovár, which I love. This film made me want to see more of Benigno, which, without spoiling anything, I'll have to say that I SHOULDN'T want to see more of him, since he is the "antagonist" in this picture. Is this sounding odd? Contradictory? YES! one must see this piece of work to appreciate, 2 years in the making and well worth the wait.
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Summary: On top form....AGAIN!
Review: Almodovar never lets me down.
This incredible film is about a guy whose wife (a female matador!) is in a coma after an accident, and a male nurse who falls in love with his patient (also in a coma). They two guys become friends and the film develops in typical Almodovar style, leading to a shocking event. This is dealt with (as usual) in a sympathetic and understanding manner, and I found myself feeling some empathy for the character that had overstepped the boundaries of normality.
But thats Pedro's 'thing'. What is normality when it comes to man and life!
The musical score is worth mentioning here too - its stunning.
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Summary: Almodovar---always interesting!
Review: I recently watched "All About My Mother" and was so impressed with Spanish director, Pedro Almodovar, that I had to see his next film "Talk to Her". I've always been a fan of his work but "All About My Mother" was his last film that really made me to go out and buy the dvd. "Talk to Her" is an interesting film but I didn't enjoy it as much as "All About My Mother". The story involves two men, who almost meet at a dance recital and then become friends as the two women they are in love with lay in comas at the same facility. It was hard to feel sympathy for Benigno ( a male nurse who sees to it that he is caring for the woman he is obssessed with) after a certain point in the movie, which I won't reveal, but it was interesting to see the friendship develop between him and Marco, who's bullfighting girlfriend, lies in a coma as well. Almodovar provides interesting and diffrent situations in his movies that you don't see in the typical Hollywood fare. If you are a fan of Pedro Almodovar, you'll want to catch this film. Otherwise, I say buy or rent it with caution. My personal favorites are "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" and "All About My Mother"---you can't go wrong with either of these two films.
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Summary: A beautiful, yet very sad film
Review: This past March, Talk To Her won Pedro Almodovar the Oscar for best original screenplay. This is not surprising, as Talk To Her is a brilliant, wondrous story. As I watched it, I couldn't help but invest completely in the characters. The character that I cared about most was Benigno, a young male nurse who is very much in love with Alicia, the comatose girl that he cares for. I was very much moved and saddened by Benigno's story. Although Benigno becomes less sympathetic as the story progresses, he remains the focal point of the story, in my opinion. It's very touching and sad to see his love/obsession for Alicia unfold. The other major character is Marco, whose bullfighter girlfriend Lydia is gored by a bull and remains in a coma just like Alicia. Marco and Benigno soon strike up a friendship, taking solace in their ability to relate to one another. Soon, as Benigno's troubles grow, Marco becomes his only true friend. It's a beautiful story that works on many levels. It's about relationships. The "relationships" between two men and the comatose women that they love, and the relationship between the two men themselves. Indeed it can be disturbing at times, particularly as it becomes clear that Beningo has some psychological problems to deal with. However, I found Talk To Her to be an incredibly moving and profound experience. I have not seem many of Almodovar's films. I enjoyed his 1999 Academy Award-winning All About My Mother, but I found Talk To Her to be even beyond that fine film. Based on this one, I plan to delve deeper into the work of Pedro Almodovar who seems to be a genuinely imaginative, compelling and complex filmmaker.
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Summary: Talk to her, listen to him
Review: Pedro Almodovar's "Talk to Her," a first-class film that provided a pleasant surprise on Oscar night, comes to market with commentary from the "chatterbox" Spanish director and one of his actors, Geraldine Chaplin. Almodovar, who won an Oscar for "Talk to Her's" screenplay, spends a lot of time describing the obvious, but the commentary does have its moments. The director ("Matador") returned to the bullfighting arena in this film, and displays a detailed knowledge of the blood sport's rituals. Actress Rosario Flores spent four months learning how to fight, Almodovar says, and actually received offers for representation as a matador. Almodovar, suffering from a cold, does most of the talking, laughing at his own torrent of words and at one point promising Chaplin, "I'll be silent at any moment." His chipper chat is in contrast to the film's fairly somber tale of two women in comas. Veteran actress Chaplin is respectful of her director and overly reserved. Images are a bit soft and tend to be flat in outdoor scenes and dark indoors. Colors are OK, but unusually reserved for the director's work. The Spanish-language film comes in adequate Dolby Digital 5.1. Engish subtitles are in bright yellow, clear and easy to follow. Almodovar and Chaplin's commentary is in Spanish, also with subtitles.
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Summary: Great movie.....
Review: This film creeps up on you and is absolutely spellbinding. I's all about friendships and relationships...The most sensitive film I've seen in a long time!
Almodovar has matured into the likes of Fellini, Buñuel etc.
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Summary: An engaging, quirky film
Review: There are 4 main characters to the story but each one is engaging in his/her own way. None of them possess "perfect" good looks but the character development and the plot and all those things that go into enhancing the movie : the cinematography, the score... just all blend together to create a very interesting film with interesting characters, moving the viewer along the peaks and the lows of each scene. At times it really made you think, other times, its pure scandal and quite thought-provoking, yet it does all this on a very basic and powerful level that can reach all types of audience. I don't know why some of the critics complain about this film having no "meaning" or purpose. Can't a good film be about the idiosyncracies of everyday life itself? Surely not every good film must be full of preach and talk about purpose... Some other critic said it makes no sense that the bullfighter was afraid of the snake... Does it ever make sense to you why some people are afraid of cockroaches and yet are not afraid of dogs and vice versa? The bottom line is, it doesn't always have to "make sense". Life just doesn't always make sense! People aren't always rational!
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Summary: In my opinion,it's not good.
Review: I like just the opening scene of the movie,but all other part is so boring.I hate many nonsense scenes;For example,the scene that the bull fighting woman runs from her house because she's scared of a snake.<Oops!why does her not scared of the bull?>,another is the scene when the mc tries to pull her guest in the talk show until she falls down on the floor<Is there any mc do like this?It's so ridiculous.>These are just the example.I'm very disappointed with this movie.I wasted my time also.The award achieved does not guarantee whether it's good or bad.
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Summary: What does it all mean?
Review: I think there is a tendency among critics, reviewers, movie-goers to rate a foreign film slightly higher than English-speaking counterparts. Something is mysterious, culturally refined, elevated in sometimes incomprehensible way. It's truly different so it must be good. All of these approaches with Almodavar's "Talk To Her," prove faulty. In the end, the movie, with me at least, just didn't connect. The plot comes across as a contrivance, a contrivance that doesn't necessarily work. Two women are placed in the same hospital in a coma. One is a dancer, one is a bullfighter. Two men stand vigil waiting, talking, watching, wanting above anything for their objects of affection to wake up. The two men gain a confidance with one another, a bonded friendship, and the story plays out with different pathways taken, paths not always moral, not always sane. I believe from this we are supposed to get a juxtaposed look at different relationships, communication, what is love, and all this other deep meaning of life pondering stuff. That seems to be the gyst of things at times in foreign films, we English speakers have this general sense that it's trying to say something deep if we could just stay awake through the droning plot to decipher the undecipherable. In the end, I found "Talk to Her" leaving little impression and stiving to hard to make a revelation. A revelation on what...I'm still not sure. If you are heavily into foreign films, you may find this one interesting. If you aren't, you just may want to rent this one if you are an insomniac.
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