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*Talk to Her* (Spanish: *Hable con ella*) is a 2002 Spanish drama and romance film directed and written by Pedro Almodóvar. The cast includes Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, and Mariola Fuentes. Agustín Almodóvar served as producer and executive producer, while Javier Aguirresarobe was the director of photography and Alberto Iglesias composed the score. The film was produced by El Deseo and distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment and Fandango at Home.
Set in Spain, the narrative follows two men who share an odd friendship while caring for two women in deep comas. Filming took place in Madrid and Almería. The 112-minute film is presented in black-and-white. It received an R rating and has a budget of 6,500,000 with a revenue of 64,826,117.
The film won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, the European Film Award for Best Film, the European Film Award for Best Director, and the European Film Award for Best Screenwriter. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. Critical reception includes an IMDb rating of 7.9, a Metascore of 86, and a Rotten Tomatoes score of 91%.
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Film · TMDB
7.6Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Cast
- Javier Cámara as Benigno
- Darío Grandinetti as Marco
- Leonor Watling as Alicia
- Rosario Flores as Lydia
- Mariola Fuentes as Rosa
- Geraldine Chaplin as Katerina Bilova
Themes
- dying and death
- journalist
- friendship
- suicide
- rape
- coma
- bullfighting
- spain
- sexual abuse
- madrid, spain
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Ratings
IMDb
7.9/10
120,861 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Metacritic
86/100
- Year
- 2002
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery, Romance
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 47 wins & 47 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Written by
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Produced by
- Agustín Almodóvar , Michel Ruben
- Starring
- Javier Cámara Darío Grandinetti Leonor Watling Geraldine Chaplin Rosario Flores
- Cinematography
- Javier Aguirresarobe
- Edited by
- José Salcedo
- Music by
- Alberto Iglesias
- Production company
- El Deseo S.A.
- Distributed by
- Warner Sogefilms
- Release date
- 15 March 2002 ( 2002-03-15 ) (Spain)
- Running time
- 112 minutes
- Country
- Spain
- Language
- Spanish
- Box office
- $64.8 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Talk To Her (Spanish: Hable Con Ella) is a 2002 Spanish psychological melodrama film, written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. It stars: Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin, and Rosario Flores. The film follows two men who form an unlikely friendship, as they care for two women who are both in comas.
The closing-night presentation at the 2002 New York Film Festival, the film was a widespread critical and commercial success, with singled-out praise towards its direction, performances and especially its screenplay. It won the BAFTA for Best Film Not in the English Language, and the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, while Almodóvar won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, marking one of the few times where a non-English-speaking film won this category. Talk To Her is generally regarded as one of the best films of the 2000s, one of the best films of the 21st century, as well as Almodóvar's magnum opus.
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