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Actors: Javier Camara, Dario Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores, Geraldine Chaplin
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Talk To Her |
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This 2002 work by Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodovar concerns two men, journalist Marco (Grandinetti, who looks little like a grubby little brother of Patrick Stewart), and nurse Benigno (Camara). Their paths cross briefly by chance at a ballet performance, then more critically at the private clinic where Benigno works. It turns out Benigno is caring for a young ballerina named Alicia (Watling) whom he has worshipped from afar and who has been in a coma for four years after a car accident. Marco's new girlfriend Lydia (Flores) is a bullfighter he met when both were on the rebound and who has been gored by a bull. Secrets and obssessions are gradually unveiled; the film is sensuous but slow, and its shocks appear mostly indirectly yet make the viewer think and shift uneasily. Who is crazy? Who is holding things together? And are miracles possible? Geraldine Chaplin has a meaty supporting role as Alicia's ballet teacher. Almodovar is clearly an acquired taste; this film is less frenetic than many of his 90s movies, but no less unsettling.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Talk To Her |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- sex with client/patient
Lover is...
- physically ill or deformed
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- journalist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- bald
Hair type
- (man) bald
Body type
- (man) average
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Hispanic/Latinic
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) fat
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Hispanic/Latinic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Spain
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- prison
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Spanish
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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