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  Review by indi ½ 23

  i hated this. i try not to hate movies but honestly i truly, truly hated this one. i can't even properly analyse it yet because i'm too angry and revolted but i will say this: musings on love and human nature and loneliness are not only wrong but outright dangerous when they're bred with misogyny so subtle and vile it goes mostly undetected. it deeply disappoints and frankly terrifies me that so many people think this is a masterpiece.

  update: i've let this sit for almost a day now & i just can't bring myself to change my rating or be more considerate of this film's alleged virtues. i understand what almodóvar is attempting to get at and i can respect…

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 4

  There is so much I did not like about this film that I find it hard to discuss it without just frothing at the mouth. I can see where Almodovar was trying to push buttons and asks questions, to bend gender expectations, and to take a complex and difficult subject to task, but he made a horrible decision in his storyline that will not work with me no matter what. In short, I'm talking about the rape, and the treatment of it. I cannot wrap my head around it in such a way that makes it palatable, and as someone who seeks transgressive cinema for the sake of discomfort, I know the difference between interesting transgression and wrong transgression. This…

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  Review by anjy 🌻 ★½ 19

  AM I SUPPOSED TO FEEL SORRY FOR HIM???!!!

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  Review by Craig Duffy ★★★★★

  The second and greatest film in what I like to refer to as Pedro's Trans-Gender trilogy. With All About My Mother you begin with an incapacitated/dead male and continue with a story that is almost exclusively female. With Talk To Her this is reversed and it is the females who are incapacitated for a male story. With Bad Education, you are dealing exclusively with male characters.

  This film is a beautiful and touching exploration of loneliness. All power to Pedro for being able to make sympathetic a character who has done despicable things. The implementation of the silent film sequence is a thing of great beauty as is the fact that The Academy chose to honor this film with Best Original Screenplay. Oh and the dance sequences too. So much beauty in this film. Even midst the darkness.

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  Review by antonella ★★★★★ 5

  Ese toque original y sensible que tiene Almodóvar para retratar al amor en sus formas más inusuales y retorcidas, creo que no lo tiene nadie más. Es una película única, jugada, incómoda, pero muy emotiva. Quede maravillada.

  Aprovecho para hacer CATARSIS (un poco spoileadora): hay gente que le da un mal puntaje solo por el hecho de tener un personaje que comete un acto terrible. Se quedan con la palabra "violación" en el vacío y se pierden de mirar todo el contexto. Creen que contar esa historia significa necesariamente justificar ese delito. Yo no lo veo para nada así. Se trata de un acto terrible, sí, pero colocado en una trama que te hace poner en tela de juicio todo…

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  Review by Stephanie ★½ 4

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  I can't believe they tried to make me feel bad for a horrible rapist. I hate men.

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  Review by vee ★★½ 3

  a very uncomfortable watch; almodovar seems to want to remind us of the neverending demands of male entitlement (you can be next door to dead and men will still expect the world from you), but ultimately his sympathy for the male characters and their increasingly reprehensible actions just ends up feeling sleazy.

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  Review by cait ★★★

  talk to her stumped me. it’s the first time i’ve been completely unsure of what to rate something, alternating between one and four stars, searching for some semblance of myself in the divided reviews. i sat there for a few hours after the film finished, dissecting every aspect of it, asking myself how did i feel in this moment? what is the audience supposed to feel? what is almodóvar’s aim here? is his voice critical or supportive? and even if i’ve come to the conclusion that i think almodóvar’s approach to some of the themes here is borderline problematic, i don’t think i’ve ever critically thought about a film this intricately before, and that deserves praise in itself. after all, isn’t that the ultimate goal of any filmmaker?

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  Review by Sam Meltzer ★★★★ 4

  Pride Month Challenge - Film 1: A film directed by Pedro Almodóvar. 

  Twisted in the best way possible. Almodovar exquisitely combines shock, tenderness, humor, and sexuality like no one else, constantly showcasing the bizarre nature of inner emotion. He tells the story of men who are able to connect to women whilst they’re silent and unable to communicate, allowing them to express themselves in rather personal ways. It may be controversial, understandably so, but that just adds to the fun of it.

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  Review by DNA cinephile🏳️‍🌈 ★★★★★ 2

  Talk to Her. 2002. Directed by Pedro Almodovar. 

  A multilayered, brilliantly written script from Pedro Almodovar: Talk to Her (2002). An artful, interesting film that brought Almodovar an Oscar for Best Writing, Original Screenplay. Pedro doesn’t make bad films. His queer centric films are liberating. He labors for decades over his films. This film was born from a Pina Bausch poster in All About My Mother (1999). 

  Almodovar’s film within a film was genius Paz Vega and Fele Martinez injected some laughs during a tense moment in cinema.
  Javier Camara and Dario Graninetti gave superb performances despite their differing backgrounds. Leonora Watling gave the bravest performance in a persistent vegetative state while Camara “cared” for her. The Pina Bausch intro…

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  Review by emilia ★ 8

  odio a los hombres en cualquier idioma :)

  of fucking course every positive review of this movie on this site is written by men absolutely creaming themselves over the Totally Deep Meaning of this film when it's really about how women would just be so much sexier if we all just shut up and had no control over our bodies

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  Review by Josh Gillam ★★★★

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  A friendship forms between male nurse Benigno (Javier Cámara) and journalist Marco (Darío Grandinetti), two very different men who both care for women in comas at the same hospital, in Pedro Almodóvar’s drama co-starring Lenor Watling, Rosario Flores and Geraldine Chaplin.

  It works best as an oddly moving character study, looking at the way these two men relate to the comatose women and to each other, with these connections becoming increasingly troubling as time goes on. Like All About My Mother, the stage is used to reflect what’s going on in the wider story, with the somnambulist ballet showing the liminal space all of the characters are…