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Talk to Her

Hable con ella

2002

Pedro Almodóvar

Javier Cámara, Leonor Watling, Darío Grandinetti, Rosario Flores ...

7.1

55,855

Drama. Romance The curtain of salmon colored roses and heavy gold fringing which covers the stage is pulled back to reveal a Pina Bausch spectacle, Café Müller. Among the spectators, two men are sitting together by chance. They don't know each other. They are Benigno (a young nurse) and Marco (a writer in his early forties). On the stage, filled with wooden chairs and tables, two women, their eyes closed and their arms extended, are moving to the ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"When it's over, the realization of how much the movie means to you really sinks in; you can't get it out of your heart."
		Claudia Puig USA Today	"The film moves slowly and deliberately, remaining captivating from the moving dance performance at the beginning to the devastating conclusion. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Talk to Her' combines improbable melodrama (...) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensational denouements, and yet at the end, we are undeniably touched (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The actors are outstanding, illuminating four different views of loneliness (...) 'Talk to Her' goes beyond tears. It's unmissable and unforgettable."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Almodovar's new movie is calmer and less floridly extravagant (...) Yet every frame bears his signature (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Geoff Andrew Time Out	"The film combines sensuality, spirituality and sheer joy in storytelling in marvellously harmonious proportions."
		Keith Phipps AV Club	"'Talk To Her' finds the gentle rhymes between tragedy and moments of happiness, and between the despair and rapture that keep its characters in the thrall of love."
		Peter Brunette IndieWire	"There’s so much here that the viewers may become overwhelmed by all the pretty, fascinating balls in the air. So much so that they may forget to care, which isn’t, of course, what Almodóvar had in mind at all."
		Ed Gonzalez Slant	"'Talk To Her' seems less about the communication between men and women than it is an evocation of the rebirth of the body and spirit (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Tom Dawson BBC	"Shot in warm, vivid tones by cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe, 'Talk to Her' is a film of exceptional compassion and generosity (...) An effortlessly accomplished and richly resonant work (....) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

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