Talk to Her
Academy Award × 1
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Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
What critics thought
One of Almodóvar's most celebrated films, Talk to Her weaves operatic melodrama — comatose women, obsessive caretakers, a silent-film interlude — into something that most critics found genuinely moving rather than merely sensationalist. The one consistent fault line in the reception concerns the film's depiction of sexual violence: critics argue that aestheticizing the assault and centering male perspectives leaves the female characters and the consequences they suffer largely unexamined.
“Combines improbable melodrama (gored bullfighters, comatose ballerinas) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensational denouements, and yet at the end, we are undeniably touched.”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
Genres
Drama, Mystery, Romance
Cast & Crew
DirectorPedro Almodóvar
StarringJavier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores, Mariola Fuentes
ComposerAlberto Iglesias, Vicente Amigo
Talk to Her
Academy Award × 1
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
What critics thought
One of Almodóvar's most celebrated films, Talk to Her weaves operatic melodrama — comatose women, obsessive caretakers, a silent-film interlude — into something that most critics found genuinely moving rather than merely sensationalist. The one consistent fault line in the reception concerns the film's depiction of sexual violence: critics argue that aestheticizing the assault and centering male perspectives leaves the female characters and the consequences they suffer largely unexamined.
“Combines improbable melodrama (gored bullfighters, comatose ballerinas) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensational denouements, and yet at the end, we are undeniably touched.”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
Genres
Drama, Mystery, Romance
Cast & Crew
DirectorPedro Almodóvar
StarringJavier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores, Mariola Fuentes
ComposerAlberto Iglesias, Vicente Amigo
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