Talk to Her 15
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Over his career, Pedro Almodóvar has returned again and again to certain tropes and motifs: the narrative that loops back to consume itself, the ostensibly sympathetic figure whose placid appearance hides aberrant yearnings and actions, and the slippery dynamics of power in romantic relationships and medical facilities. Talk to Her combines all these in typically beguiling fashion, if one that some critics found a touch too machine-tooled in comparison with the director’s best earlier work.
The interlocking narratives of Talk To Her concern two men, a nurse (Javier Cámara) and a journalist (Darío Grandinetti), who find themselves tending comatose objects of affection. There are revelations, betrayals and turnarounds, set against beautiful natural and architectural backdrops, and orchestrated in ways to keep the viewer at once transfixed and repelled.
- Director
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Country
- Spain
- Year
- 2002
- Duration
- 113 mins
- Language
- Spanish
- Cast
- Darío Grandinetti, Javier Cámara, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores
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