Talk to Her

Unrated

4/30/20021h 52m

Premiere Release (US)

Overview:

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

Director:

Pedro Almodóvar

Status:

Released

Language:

Spanish

Buget:

$6,500,000.00

Revenue:

$64,826,117.00

Key words:

dying and death
journalist
friendship
suicide
rape
coma
bullfighting
spain
sexual abuse
madrid, spain
pregnancy
car crash
matador (bullfighter)
hospital

Cast

Leonor Watling

~ as ~

Alicia

Rosario Flores

~ as ~

Lydia

Javier Cámara

~ as ~

Benigno

Darío Grandinetti

~ as ~

Marco

Mariola Fuentes

~ as ~

Rosa

Geraldine Chaplin

~ as ~

Katerina Bilova

Pina Bausch

~ as ~

Bailarine

Malou Airaudo

~ as ~

Bailarine

Caetano Veloso

~ as ~

Singer at Party

Roberto Álvarez

~ as ~

Doctor Vega

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Reviews (2)

lmao7
Written 8 year(s) ago
8
Now this is…really something different like the story and Benigno. I know what he did was so so wrong but I felt bad for him. Such a heartbreaking story and I love how the friendship was formed, although I really didn’t care about the writer and matador. I just couldn’t stop watching this film when I saw it on Sundance, until the ending, like the butt shakin partner dance before the end credits. It may be the music. And of course…Paz Vega’s black and white silent film, the shrinking man who went inside her…literally!
CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
7
This is a clever exposé of how men deal with their emotions. Marco and Benigno develop a close friendship almost despite themselves - and certainly not because they actually ought to. There is "love" that is unrequited, on-the-rebound and even violent all encompassed within this relatively concise story. Almodóvar hits the gold mine early with this and mines it wonderfully. There are some distinctive moral ambiguities in this film, and the Director makes no apology for that nor does he try to corral us into his (or any other) way of thinking - we have to make our own judgement as to how compassionate and/or forgiving we are at the end.