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 Barnes & Noble Two comatose women become the center of an unusual meditation on love and obsession in Talk to Her, the Academy Award-winning film from Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. When a female bullfighter (Rosario Flores) ends up in a coma after being gored, she is hospitalized next to a comatose dancer (Leonor Watling). This leads to an odd friendship between the bullfighters frequently visiting boyfriend (Darió Grandinetti) and an introverted man (Javier Cámara) who functions as the dancers caretaker. The fluid narrative uses flashbacks to reveal the dynamics of the pre-coma relationships, and it is here that the story becomes pure Almodóvar. The dancers naive, childlike caretaker turns out to have been stalking her for quite some time. His obsession is portrayed as being strangely benign, but its the hook that brings up some unusual issues about love and relationships, marked by the directors typical offbeat insights into sexuality. There are unpredictable turns into uncharted psychological territory, including an outrageously fetishistic silent-movie lampoon that explores the bizarre sexual possibilities in an incredible-shrinking-man scenario. That the screenplay, written in Spanish, took home an Oscar speaks volumes about the storys universal emotional allure. The dance pieces, choreographed by Pina Bausch, and an al fresco nightclub performance by Caetano Veloso only push the film closer to the sublime. Gregory Baird Interested in the song lyrics? - Check out themostlyrics.com! Looking For A DVD? - Check out dvd-a-rama.com! |
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