: Talk to Her
Author: Pedro Almodovar
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Astonishingly good film, definitely one of Almodovar’s best. I thought at first it might be a bit boring, but Almodovar never lets that happen, always jumping us from story to story, giving us fascinating tastes and moving us on before we get too much. There are two intertwined stories, both involving coma victims. One is about a male nurse who lovingly takes care of a young girl in a coma; the other is about a writer who falls for a female bullfighter not long before she’s gorged in the ring and ends up in a coma. The two men become friends. Here Almodovar does something that I’ve never seen before (except in gimmicky films like Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!. It’s wild, and yet, when you compare it to the relationships the men have with the coma women, it’s subtly profound. Remarkable film.
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