
After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet student. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny.... (Full plot summary below)
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After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet student. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny.
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| Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyAlmodóvar has made a powerfully moving film about men who think they want to lose themselves in their women, then are startled to realize that they're the ones who have been comatose. |
| Metro Times (Detroit, MI)Anita SchmaltzTalk to Her is a sad falsetto ballad, holding onto hope like a dove cupped in two gentle hands in the midst of blood-splattered bullhorns and slow death. |
| Empire MagazineAlan MorrisonSad and beautiful, sly and funny, clever and controversial. |
| Zap2it.comVanessa SibbaldWith "Talk to Her," Aldomovar crafts an amazing tender homage to his favorite theme, leaving behind the kookier elements and instead focusing on his characters... |
| DVDTalk.comD.K. HolmTalk to Her is outrageous, cruel, and appalling. |
| Premiere MagazineGlenn KennyThis is a complex, beautiful film that is, in the end, more warming than chilling, one that people will be talking about for a long time to come. |
| Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)Linda CookNo wonder they're talking about "Talk to Her." It's astonishing. |
| Kalamazoo GazetteJames SanfordThe offbeat beauty of Almodovar's script lies in its seductive combination of grieving, sensuality, fantasy and passion. Almodovar is incapable of creating dull characters... |
| PopMattersMatthew SorrentoHumanity is intricate, contradictory, fathomless here, and the filmmaking just as rich. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeOne of the strangest, most heavily layered and assured films that Almodovar has ever made -- possibly his masterpiece -- sly, funny, incredibly convoluted and, ultimately, almost devastatingly moving. |