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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5060002831137
Format: PAL, Widescreen
Label: Pathe Distribution
Languages:English Subtitled Spanish Original Language Dolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Pathe Distribution
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Pathe Distribution
Region Code: 2
Release Date: February 24, 2003
Running Time: 113 minutes
Studio: Pathe Distribution
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's Talk To Her is his least stylised, most accessible and arguably greatest movie. Covering the same, highly provocative terrain as Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle and The Smiths' "Girlfriend in a Coma", Almodovar forges a work that's funny, compassionate, engaging and deeply touching.
Unusually for Almodovar, the emphasis is on the two male characters, with the female leads spending much of the film as "objects" in a vegetative state. Dario Grandinetti plays Marco, a journalist who befriends Lydia (Rosario Flores), a female bullfighter. Following a goring in the ring, she lapses into a coma. At the clinic where she is kept on life support, Marco meets a somewhat effete male nurse, Benigno (Javier Camara) who lovingly tends to a ballet student, Alicia, also chronically comatose. They strike up a friendship, their respective stories emerging through flashbacks. Both, however, respond to their common fate in different ways. Marco is distraught at the loss of Lydia, whereas the dysfunctional Benigno is blissful, tending to Alicia, for whom he nourished an obsession prior to accident. Reduced to being a vegetable, she is fully, unresistingly, his.
It's a tribute to Almodovar that he is able to handle the outlandish, potentially appalling subject matter of Talk To Her with such finesse. Emotionally, it's often on a knife edge; there are moments when you don't know whether to laugh, gasp or sigh. But when ultimately you find yourself welling with tears of sympathy for an alleged rapist, you realise what a master filmmaker Almodovar is.
On the DVD: Talk To Her offers an excellent transfer of a visually handsome movie. Extras are a little disappointing--just trailers for Almodovar's more outlandish Live Flesh and All About My Mother. --David Stubbs
Rating:
- Buenas Noches
This is the only film I can remember that has ended and left me not knowing what to think. There's something about Marco and Benigno that made me both empathise and despise them at the same time, but I'm not sure at which stage of the film I got either opinion.
This is a profoundly affecting story which conflicts morals and emotions. Definitely worth checking out.
Rating: - An underrated and subtly layered film about love, obsession and friendship.
Here we have four characters: two men and two women. One man is articulate but weak. The other, child-like but determined. The first man will give up on the woman he loves, resulting in the end of her life. The second man will submit himself to his woman, effectively bringing her back from the dead. Almodovar will draw parallels between the four characters throughout, whilst commenting on the subtly charming sense of absurdity of the film through his references to other inter-textual ideas.
... Read More
Rating:
- metaphor for male-female relationships ??
As Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar reminds with this 2002 film, that there can also be entertainment value in the plight of people who are comatose or in a persistent vegetative state. Almodóvar picked up an Academy Award for his creepy original screenplay about two men and the unconscious women with whom they are emotionally involved. As we expect from an important European film, there is a fair amount of allegory and symmetry. The story concerns two couples. One pair is rather macho. The man is ... Read More
Rating: - A Beautiful Film of Love, Loneliness and Friendship. Superb
This film by the fantastic director Almodovar is an absolute corker. It is more than your run of the mill love story; you never get just an ordinary plot from him. The story is about two men and their respective loves. Marco is in love with a female bullfighter, who is gored and ends up in hospital. He meets Benigno, a nurse caring for a dancer left in a coma after a car crash. The two men find friendship together; connected by the two women, both in comas. This film will stay with you for years. ... Read More
Rating:
- All gloss and not much else.
Beautiful colour (and black and white)photography and an engaging musical score cannot conceal what is to me a script that has more in common with soap opera than a serious drama.The Amazon reviewer compares it to 'Brimstone and Treacle'. This is true if one is concerned with its power to shock, but for me Brimstone and Treacle went beyond that: it had a script that was literate and had something to say.To me this film is all gloss and not much else.
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Talk To Her [2002]
starring: Rosario Flores, Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Mariola Fuentes
directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Our Price: 108,464.40
Prices excluding shipping charge.Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5060002831137
Format: PAL, Widescreen
Label: Pathe Distribution
Languages:
Manufacturer: Pathe Distribution
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Pathe Distribution
Region Code: 2
Release Date: February 24, 2003
Running Time: 113 minutes
Studio: Pathe Distribution
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Related Items:
- All About My Mother [1999]
- Volver (Almodovar) [2006]
- Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown [1985]
- Pan's Labyrinth [2006]
- The Lives Of Others [2007]
- see more
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's Talk To Her is his least stylised, most accessible and arguably greatest movie. Covering the same, highly provocative terrain as Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle and The Smiths' "Girlfriend in a Coma", Almodovar forges a work that's funny, compassionate, engaging and deeply touching.
Unusually for Almodovar, the emphasis is on the two male characters, with the female leads spending much of the film as "objects" in a vegetative state. Dario Grandinetti plays Marco, a journalist who befriends Lydia (Rosario Flores), a female bullfighter. Following a goring in the ring, she lapses into a coma. At the clinic where she is kept on life support, Marco meets a somewhat effete male nurse, Benigno (Javier Camara) who lovingly tends to a ballet student, Alicia, also chronically comatose. They strike up a friendship, their respective stories emerging through flashbacks. Both, however, respond to their common fate in different ways. Marco is distraught at the loss of Lydia, whereas the dysfunctional Benigno is blissful, tending to Alicia, for whom he nourished an obsession prior to accident. Reduced to being a vegetable, she is fully, unresistingly, his.
It's a tribute to Almodovar that he is able to handle the outlandish, potentially appalling subject matter of Talk To Her with such finesse. Emotionally, it's often on a knife edge; there are moments when you don't know whether to laugh, gasp or sigh. But when ultimately you find yourself welling with tears of sympathy for an alleged rapist, you realise what a master filmmaker Almodovar is.
On the DVD: Talk To Her offers an excellent transfer of a visually handsome movie. Extras are a little disappointing--just trailers for Almodovar's more outlandish Live Flesh and All About My Mother. --David Stubbs
Average Rating: 
Rating:
- Buenas NochesThis is the only film I can remember that has ended and left me not knowing what to think. There's something about Marco and Benigno that made me both empathise and despise them at the same time, but I'm not sure at which stage of the film I got either opinion.
This is a profoundly affecting story which conflicts morals and emotions. Definitely worth checking out.
Rating:
- An underrated and subtly layered film about love, obsession and friendship.Here we have four characters: two men and two women. One man is articulate but weak. The other, child-like but determined. The first man will give up on the woman he loves, resulting in the end of her life. The second man will submit himself to his woman, effectively bringing her back from the dead. Almodovar will draw parallels between the four characters throughout, whilst commenting on the subtly charming sense of absurdity of the film through his references to other inter-textual ideas.
... Read More
Rating:
- metaphor for male-female relationships ??As Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar reminds with this 2002 film, that there can also be entertainment value in the plight of people who are comatose or in a persistent vegetative state. Almodóvar picked up an Academy Award for his creepy original screenplay about two men and the unconscious women with whom they are emotionally involved. As we expect from an important European film, there is a fair amount of allegory and symmetry. The story concerns two couples. One pair is rather macho. The man is ... Read More
Rating:
- A Beautiful Film of Love, Loneliness and Friendship. SuperbThis film by the fantastic director Almodovar is an absolute corker. It is more than your run of the mill love story; you never get just an ordinary plot from him. The story is about two men and their respective loves. Marco is in love with a female bullfighter, who is gored and ends up in hospital. He meets Benigno, a nurse caring for a dancer left in a coma after a car crash. The two men find friendship together; connected by the two women, both in comas. This film will stay with you for years. ... Read More
Rating:
- All gloss and not much else.Beautiful colour (and black and white)photography and an engaging musical score cannot conceal what is to me a script that has more in common with soap opera than a serious drama.The Amazon reviewer compares it to 'Brimstone and Treacle'. This is true if one is concerned with its power to shock, but for me Brimstone and Treacle went beyond that: it had a script that was literate and had something to say.To me this film is all gloss and not much else.
Action & Adventure • Adult • Anime • Children's • Classics • Comedy • Crime, Thrillers & Mystery • Documentary • Drama • Fitness • Gay & Lesbian • Horror • Interactive • Music • Musicals & Classical • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Sports • Television •
