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Summary: Daring and creative
Review: "Talk To Her" is one of the best foreign movies released in 2002. The storyline has many creative and daring scenes, giving it that unique dramatic climax. Every scene continues to grow in interest, forcing the audience to never blink. The emotional acting is great. The longing feelings are expressed the best. The production and the directing is also magnificant. The Oscar win for Best Original Screenplay and the additional nomination for Best Director were well-deserved. However, the voting academy wrongfully dissed "Talk To Her" for Best Foreign Film. A man's wife lays in a coma after a bullfighting accident. At the hospital, he meets a man whose "love of his life" also lays comatosed. The two become fast friends. Many dramatic turns occur amongst the four. Suddenly, a shocking event occurs, which changes everyone's lives, awake or unconscious. "Talk To Her" is recommended to those looking for heavy drama. This will give them an experience to never be forgotten. Don't rent the english version. As all other foreign films, they change the script, therefore, demolishing every characters' emotions. The spanish version expresses everything that the producers intended.
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Summary: THE BEST OF ALMODOVAR!
Review: This is a MUST SEE........excelent music, actors and screenplay.
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Summary: Pedro!!!!!!
Review: Hola a todos! Esta vez no os escribire en ingles ya que todavia no lo domino mucho :-P. Sinceramente, la pelicula fue una obra maestra! Lo que es realmente increible es como Pedro Almodovar transmite el amor de una forma inocente pero eso si, esa inocencia no es nada mas que la mascara de la verdadera cara de la lujuria. Dicen que es un poco sadica, si es sadica o no, eso realmente para mi no me importa, yo soy un cinefilo convencido y veo lo que sea tanto si me guste como si no. Las intervenciones de los invitados como Paz Vega, Elena Anaya etc... fueron claves, a parte que la escena de Paz Vega en el corto en blanco y negro fue sublime, bastante salada ;-) El guion fue perfecto, todo muy bien trabajado a fondo, y yo desde aqui Pedro - tanto si lo lees como no - te felicito por el oscar (a pesar de que te felicite un poco tarde jajajaja) Pues eso! Sigue haciendo peliculas!
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Summary: Moving and Beautiful
Review: Almodovar truly succeeds at expressing raw emotion throughout this beautiful film of love and loss. Just as in "All About My Mother," his characters allow the viewer to see aspects of humanity that may be categorized as deviant or unconventional yet we inevitably empathize with their desire and pain. In addition to an original and absorbing story, the wonderful acting, stunning cinematography, and highly emotional soundtrack are not to be missed. Without doubt one of the best films of 2002.
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Summary: Boring?
Review: Acting was fine, even notable. However the story, though
not quite total drivel, just seemed to me to be not worth telling. The film was nice as a vehicle for the actors. There was also good camera work. I assume everyone got paid, so good for all. For us though, there are finer stories out there; plausible ones, indeed interesting ones. This story would not be one of those.
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Summary: A very good film
Review: It's not everyday that I get into foreign films but "Talk To Her" is a film that was interesting from the beginning. It's sorta weird, a picture within a picture it seems. The two stories of the two very different women in coma's sounded like a boring premise for a movie, but the movie was just the opposite, both of the women had very lively stories that lead up to them ending up in a coma, and the men that cared for them cared deeply. This film kept me on the edge of my seat and the shocking twists in the movie are mad crazy. A definite winner.
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Summary: FAITH, LOVE & DEVOTION
Review: In simple terms TALK TO HER involves two men who are in love with two different women who are in a coma at the same rehabilitation center. Although at first glance these two tales appear to be unrelated, towards the end both intertwine as friendships are made and new love blossoms. But anyone who has watched it knows that there are a multitude of themes and issues running throughout this film. I won't necessarily go into what I interpret the themes to be because other reviewers have done a good job of exploring them. I simply adored TALK TO HER. I believe it is the best foreign film of 2002. The cinematography of the arid Spanish countryside is gorgeous and brings back happy memories of my trip to Spain many years ago. The characters are convincing and three-dimensional and the emotions displayed between them are realistic. It is amazing how well controversial subjects are treated with grace and skill without offending the audience or letting those scenes overpower the rest of the film. TALK TO HER is a pure delight. It only makes me wonder why I waited so long to see it in the first place.
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Summary: a very good movie, sometimes pretty funny
Review: there is a scene in the movie that is so funny but quite unspeakable or writeable here. this is a beautifully produced spanish film. by viewing this film, you can also realize that spain now is in a pretty good shaped economy, no wonder so many our dringos moved over there to enjoy a higher quality living standard.
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Summary: Thinking about Talk To Her
Review: It's unlikely that you'll ever see a more expertly assembled film than TTH. The acting is top-notch, the cinematography is memorably beautiful, the script is economical without being dry, and the pacing of the music and the silences is peerless. Despite the spectacular wrapping, however, with TTH, there's just no getting around the plot. There's only two ways to go here. Either 1) Talk To Her succeeds in showing that poetic, empathetic, and deeply human qualities can be found even within the morally repugnant, and merits comparison with a number of very good films featuring lush treatment of lurid subjects, including Kieslowski's White and Red, Tom Tykwer's Heaven, The English Patient, and even Seven. or 2)Talk To Her IS morally repugnant, an unfortunate result of a director who had no one by his side with the guts to point out the self-absorbtion and gratuitous fantasy of the premise. Kind of like the ridiculous Eyes Wide Shut, or all of Woody Allen's "romantic comedies," now that we know just how creepy Woody Allen is. Sorry, but I pick 2 on this one. For a better film, see Y Tu Mama Tambien--that film finds real compassion within base desire, and it wipes the floor with this beautiful mess from Almodovar.
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Summary: Is All Fair In Love?
Review: Post perusal of the aforementioned reviews, one is inclined to interpret "Talk to Her" quite superficially. However, critical attention to the film's musical themes elicits deeper, more profound interpretations that urge viewers to question whether this film is as innocent as it seems. Benigno is a victim of plutonic love. After developing an obsession for Alicia, a ballerina who delves into a coma for years, he not only nurses her as an intimate friend, he eventually martyrs himself for her as well. If one pays attention to the subtlest details within the film, he or she will see there is limited, circumstantial evidence that deems Benigno guilty of the "crime" against Alicia. There is just as much evidence to deem another guilty. The director masterfully punctuates the movie with a retro "talkie" that implies a warped phenomenon in Benigno. However, poetic intuition reveals an ulterior motive in another seemingly innocuous character. Marco, a man who befriends Benigno, while caring for his comatose lover, Lydia, becomes Benigno's nemesis in pursuit of the same woman. Critical viewers will notice how each relationship overlaps like themes and motifs in a musical composition. This is relevant to understanding Marco's betrayal of Benigno. For instance, after caring for his own comatose lover for months, Marco discovers that his lover, Lydia, had repaired her relationship with her ex-lover before she had her debilitating accident. Distraught and alone, Marco wanders into an affinity for Alicia still in an unconscious state. It may not seem likely that Marco is capable of perpetrating the "crime" unto Alicia, but there is a few key lines in the film that allude to this strong possibility. At one point, Benigno and Marco discuss Benigno's feelings about Alicia. He confesses in public he's in love with her and would like to marry her, despite her comatose state. Marco chides Benigno for confessing such "nonsense." Moreover, Marco tells Benigno that he won't be around to help him if "it" ever comes to light. What exactly is Marco alluding to? It seems Marco possesses some hidden knowledge of something, (perhaps the crime against Alicia), which Benigno knows nothing about. The director deliberately leaves controversial angles of the film ambiguous in order to challenge viewers. No great work of art is simple. Any great work of literature, film or music is deliberately left ambiguous in order to provide multiple interpretations. The director of "Talk to Her" doesn't want viewers to take any detail in the four relationships for granted. Unfortunately, though, most viewers are not as critical as the director would like, and only see the surface of any complex relationship. Yet, not everything in this world is as rosy as a harlequin romance. There are dark, hidden forces in the human psyche that manifest themselves in every human relationship--especailly when that relationship involves competition for a desired object. In my humble opinion, Marco radically usurps the love of Alicia from Benigno's loving, caring, nurturing, and most importantly platonic hands. But, like a saint who dies for the sins of his loved ones, Benigno unconsciously takes the fall for Marco--a man who makes a choice to sacrifice the love of a friend for the love of a woman in a most complicated way. This is why the film earned an Oscar. If the film were as cut and dry as other reviewers would have you believe, surely that award would not have been granted.
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