Review of Talk to Her (2002) by Mithila Minxy K — 07 Mar 2008
At first sight Talk to Her looks like another case study in that famously offbeat, not to say queer, book of life according to Almodóvar. His scenarios have been no strangers to sex, drugs, and heartrending canción (a particular brand of overwrought singing which knows no real Anglo-Saxon equivalent).
Benigno and Marco are both lonely men, Marco because his lover, a woman bullfighter, is in a coma, Benigno, a thirty-year old virgin Momma's boy, from habit. Both are in love, too (Benigno, a male nurse at the clinic, slavishly tends Alicia, a comatose accident victim, for a living).
It is he who gives Marco, with whom he strikes up a friendship, the eponymous advice: talk, and your heartfelt monologue will be more meaningful and therapeutic than any marital dialogue. Very true. Talk to Her is therapy.
Necessary. Complex. Simple. Unmissable.
This review of Talk to Her (2002) was written by Mithila Minxy K on 07 Mar 2008.
Talk to Her has generally received very positive reviews.
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