Hable con ella is a 2002 spanish drama written and directed by pedro almodovar, and starring javier camara, dario grandinetti, leonor watling, geraldine chaplin, and rosario flores. After his mother died he was free to move about and finally picked up the courage to talk to alicia after she dropped her wallet on the street. He talks to her as if she were conscious, pursues her passions as his own and tells her what he has seen, and oversees every aspect of her care, including visits from her ballet master katerina geraldine chaplin, whose arty pronouncementslike the film s pina bausch balletsunderline its paradoxical themes. Read the talk to her movie synopsis, view the movie trailer, get cast and crew information, see movie photos, and more on. Almodovar has a unique tack on making films, and this one is a visual stunner that is intensely augmented by. One theme is that men can possess attributes usually described as feminine.
I found the film bloated with unnecessary scenes and overdramatic dancing that did nothing to add to the plot. Hable con ella talk to her official trailer youtube. Erika linder and natalie krill talk below her mouth youtube. In addition to many, many other ideas and subjects that were covered in this incredibly mindblowing film, the idea of communication stuck out most to me. Talk to her hable con ella is a 2002 spanish comedydrama film by pedro almodovar. The first segment pertains to the relationship between benigno, a male hospital nurse and the patient in his care alicia who is in a coma after being injured in an accident. Alberto iglesias, iglesias, alberto talk to her amazon. Love is the saddest thing when it goes away, as a song by jobim goes. Watch talk to her online stream full movie directv. The silent film within the movie was long but explains the change in benigno. A man cries in the opening scene of pedro almodovars talk to her, but although unspeakably sad things are to happen later in the movie, these tears are shed during a theater performance. Benigno and marco develop a powerful bond in their deep love forand shared devotion towomen who cannot talk back even when they open their eyes or return. Her is a 20 american sciencefiction romantic drama film written, directed, and produced by spike jonze.
A noticeable flaw is some contradiction in character, a bull fighter who fears a snake is possible but seems bizarre. Almodovar loves the human flesh indeed, one of his films is titled live flesh and with the quietly subversive talk to her, he utilizes it not just as mere decoration but weaves with it textured themes of powerlessness, love and obsession. This is represented through a metaphorical and surreal metanarrative of the silent film. Theres nothing worse than leaving someone you still love. They share what william james once called the gift of tears.
Talk to her is a more persuasive film than the overpraised, overheated all about my mother. Aug 07, 2016 talk to her features a graphic and controversial bull fighting sequence, but also a referenced but never explicitly shown rape of a patient in a coma. Onstage, a woman wanders as if blind or dazed, and a man scurries to move obstacles out of her waychairs, tables. Ga this article has been rated as gaclass on the projects quality. Two strangers are seated next to one another at a pina bausch ballet in madrid. To use this banner, please refer to the documentation. Talk to her is a film about the joy of narration and about words as a weapon against. Talk to her is the surprising, altogether original and quietly moving story of the spoken and unspoken bonds that unite the lives and loves of. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see lists of open tasks and regional and topical task forces. Talk to her is the surprising, altogether original and quietly moving story of the spoken and unspoken bonds that unite the lives and loves of two couples. Talk to her follows two men as they forge relationships with two women, a dancer and a bullfighter who become comatose following accidents.
Watch talk to her starring javier camara in this drama on directv. About silence as eloquence of the body, about film as an ideal vehicle in relationships between people, about how a film told in words can bring time to a standstill and install itself in the lives of the person telling it and the person listening. This aspect of the film, its tendency to produce what we might call. Alberto iglesias soundtrack for pedro almodovars talk to her is as compelling a piece of 21st century spanish classical music and languid sensuality as the film itself. See more ideas about movie talk, spanish and teaching spanish. To improve this article, please refer to the guidelines. The little short within the film the shrinking man is a depiction of what almodovar thinks of. Mar 16, 2016 miracles from heaven is based on the incredible true story of the beam family. What makes talk to her so unique is the relative absence of an open feminine voicealicia and lydia both spend the majority of the film unconscious, in an existential paradox. It features marco, a writer and benigno an orderly, who both struggle with the implications of the women of their lives being stuck in a persistent vegetative states.
That might sound like a creepy basis for a story, but genius spanish director pedro almodovar manages to come up with a film thats constantly surprising, and funny, full of the tenderness and compassion that has seen him become one of the worlds most acclaimed filmmakers. Find out where talk to her is streaming, if talk to her is on netflix, and get news and updates, on decider. Rent talk to her 2002 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Talk to her is a film about the joy of narration and about words as a weapon against solitude, disease, death and madness. The other man is in love with a woman, he has only spoken to her once.
Talk to her is considered by many to be almodovars top masterpiece. The film follows two men who form an unlikely friendship as they care for two women who are both in comas. Talk to her a postmodern melodrama by almodovar is dated. Selfreflexive, talk to her comments on the film mediums unique properties, capturing the essence of monologues and dialogues, especially when they are shot in closeups. Talk to her soundtrack cd details and availability. That film s star, cecilia roth, makes an uncredited appearance here. A very fine film from almodovar in which he explores with almost total confidence the. The story of talk to her does not need retelling especially since it has been so widely seen but it is divided into three major segments pertaining to the three key relationships in the narrative.
When christy jennifer garner discovers her 10yearold daughter anna kylie rogers has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a ferocious advocate for her daughters healing as she searches for a solution. Jul 09, 2017 le film talk to her 2002 vostfr admin 20170709t03. The marvelous new talk to her has elements that wouldnt have seemed out of place in an almodovar film of 20 years ago. When wounded bullfighter lydia rosario flores is brought into the same ward, her. However the edit was to this article and like im saying before, since there is no. A woman scientist accuses her partner of being selfish. Jan 15, 2014 spike jonze movie her shows us a film about a man in love with his computer, but its really the best look weve ever had at the singularity. They can devote their lives to a patient in a coma, they can live their emotional lives through someone else, they can gain deep satisfaction from bathing, tending, cleaning up. Id argue the same regardless of which article it was.
The shrinking lover, where the male lover, who has been physically shrunk due to a potion. After being injured in a car accident, alicia is brought to a nearby hospital, where benigno serendipitously happens to be her caregiver. This article is within the scope of wikiproject film. Rent talk to her 2002 starring javier camara and dario grandinetti on dvd and bluray. Film analysis of talk to her identities in contemporary. Talk to her nude scenes 18 images and 7 videos including appearances from paz vega elena anaya leonor watling. Two men share an odd friendship while they care for their girlfriends who are both in deep comas.
Alicias dance mentor geraldine chaplin also talks to her, and benigno urges marco to do the same with lydia, but marco is unable to talk to lydia, whom he thinks of as already dead there is reason to think that she is, in fact, more gravely injured than alicia. It starts at the onehour, oneminute, 52second mark in the movie, and runs a touch over seven minutes. Male nurse benigno javier camara becomes infatuated with a complete stranger when he watches dancer alicia leonor watling practicing from the anonymity of his apartment. There is a parallel in the film, as raimunda mentions that agustinas famehungry sister once dragged her to madrid for a singing audition. The film takes on operatic sensibilities at times, as with its opening scene or the beautifully constructed bullfight sequence, in which marco and lydias relationship comes to an abrupt but sadly foreseeable close. It was only when i first sat down to write about pedro almodovars talk to her hable con ella that the complexities of the film began to obfuscate any sort of immediate, rational approximation of what it was like to watch the movie. The men of talk to her pedro almodovars talk to her undoubtedly merits the attention that it has received in the past few years. Todo sobre mi madre ended with a theater curtain opening to reveal a darkened stage. Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas. The film follows theodore twombly joaquin phoenix, a man who develops a relationship with samantha scarlett johansson, an artificially intelligent virtual assistant personified through a female voice. As they walk together to her house, they talk about her discovery of mute black and white films and dancing. This is a film about the body, with passionate dance sequences and carnal scenes from the bullring. Aug 22, 2002 talk to her is a more persuasive film than the overpraised, overheated all about my mother.
A few themes are examined by talk to her, loneliness, transcendingobsessive love, loss. But in talk to her iglesias simply pushed the envelope to new levels of lyrical beauty. Feb 14, 2017 actors erika linder and natalie krill sit down to talk about their film below her mouth during the 2016 toronto international film festival. Just past the center of pedro almodovars talk to her is a short film in the style of silent movies that the american dvd suggests is called shrinking lover. Talk to her is a multilayered film with the opening scene of the ballet to a nighttime recital of brazilian singer caetano veloso to a sevenminute silent film the shrinking lover. The movie that irene watches on tv is bellissima 1951, starring anna magnani as a famehungry, working class mother who drags her unwilling daughter to the cinecitta film studios in rome for a movie audition. Alberto iglesias music very much constitutes part of the soul of all recent movies by spanish genius pedro almodovar. Some people around him thinks he is gay so he is allowed to take care of her, see her naked, touch her. This romantic drama follows the lives of two male protagonists benigno and marco and those of their female counterparts alicia and lydia. It is also a film about madness, about a type of madness so close to tenderness and common sense that it does not diverge from normality. Although the spanish director has specialized in movies about women, the two men are center stage here. However, im still curious about why you think her in particular should use words, as opposed to the examples i gave, which all use slashes.
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