Talk to her
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Talk to her |
| Original title | Hable con ella |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pedro Almodovar |
| script | Pedro Almodovar |
| production |
Michel Ruben Agustín Almodovar |
| music | Alberto Iglesias |
| camera | Javier Aguirresarobe |
| cut | José Salcedo |
| occupation | |
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Talk to her (original title: Hable con ella ) is a Spanish drama film from 2002. Pedro Almodóvar directed and wrote the screenplay, with Javier Cámara and Darío Grandinetti in the lead roles .
action
Benigno and Alicia
The Spaniard Benigno has been looking after his mentally ill mother for 15 years and has not had any contact with his Swedish father for a long time. He lives with his mother across from a ballet school. If he looks out the window, he can watch the students dance. He falls in love with one of these students, Alicia. This, the daughter of a psychiatrist, knows nothing of his love. To get closer to her, Benigno goes to her father's psychological consultation.
When Benigno wants to visit Alicia after his mother's death, he learns that she is in a vegetative state due to a traffic accident . Benigno, who works as a nurse, is hired by Alicia's father to look after her, which, as he himself says, is the best time of his life.
Marco and Lydia
The Argentine Marco Zuluaga has worked as a journalist in Spain. After seeing the torera Lydia on TV, he wants to write an article about her and gets to know her. A love relationship develops between Marco and Lydia. This contact helps both of them to process their previous love relationships.
A few months later Lydia faces a bullfight in which she is seriously injured and falls into a coma. In the hospital, Marco becomes friends with Benigno and learns from him that he has been loving Alicia for four years, including hairdressing and talking to her. Since Marco has difficulty staying in emotional contact with Lydia, Benigno advises Marco to speak to Lydia as well. Shortly before Marco is able to open up to Lydia, he learns from Lydia's former lover Niño that he and Lydia were reconciled shortly before their last bullfight. Marco is disappointed and travels to Jordan to work on a travel guide.
In Jordan he reads about Lydia's death in the newspaper and calls the hospital to find out more. He is told that Benigno is no longer working in the hospital, that Alicia is pregnant, that Benigno is accused of abusing Alicia and that he is now in prison.
Marco drives back to Spain, visits Benigno in prison and moves into his apartment, which is furnished with lots of things reminiscent of Alicia. Benigno wants to know how Alicia is doing and whether the child was born.
Marco discovers that Alicia was stillborn but awoke from her coma and is now busy with her rehabilitation. He wants to tell Benigno about it, but his lawyer advises against it.
The next morning, Marco receives a message in which Benigno announces that he wants to "escape prison" by putting himself into a coma by taking pills so that he can always be with Alicia. Marco immediately drives to the jail to tell him that Alicia has woken up. However, Benigno is already dead.
Marco and Alicia
Marco meets Alicia in the theater, who is accompanied by her ballet teacher Katerina Bilova. A new love relationship is developing between the two of them.
backgrounds
The film was released on March 15, 2002 in Spanish cinemas, where it grossed over one million euros on the opening weekend. Overall, the box office income in Spain was over 6.2 million euros. The film was released in other European countries between March and October 2002. In Italy he played 5.69 million euros, in Germany 2.32 million euros and in France 8.6 million euros. In the United States, where the film opened on November 22, 2002, it grossed 9.2 million US dollars. With total box office earnings of $ 51 million, Sprich mit her is considered commercially successful.
Soundtrack
- Sabana Santa
- Hable Con Ella
- Cucurrucucu Paloma
- Tbsp grito
- Por Toda A Minha Vida
- La Mesita De Noche
- Jordania
- El Amante Menguante
- Maria Santisima De Araceli
- La Noche Y El Viento
- Trincheras / Decadance
- Habitacion De Alicia
- A Portagayola
- La Discusion Viaja En Coche
- Alicia Vive
- Los Olivos
- Amanecer Agitato
- Soy Marco
- Raquel
- The Plaint: O Let Me Weep, For Ever Weep
Reviews
- “ After the worldwide award-winning ' All About My Mother ', he has again created a sensitive, moving and also bold work. Highly praised by critics, this psychologically rousing drama about love, death and loneliness should be particularly well received by fans of European mental cinema. "(VideoWeek)
- “ This tender and insane film is the new masterpiece of a wild, melodramatic, lucid filmmaker, after the Oscar and the highest international award, which won 'Alles über Meine Mutter' (1999), in which even Geraldine Chaplin is great in a striking supporting role. "( Focus: film )
Awards
The film was extremely successful and won many film awards. Speak with her won an Oscar in 2003 in the category Best Original Screenplay and Almodóvar was nominated for the category Best Director , but could not prevail against Roman Polański's The Pianist . The film was awarded the Golden Globe in the category Best Foreign Language Film . He won the British Academy Film Award for Best Non-English Language Film and Best Screenplay . The film received Satellite Awards in the categories of Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Screenplay . Almodóvar was also nominated for Best Director .
At the presentation of the European Film Awards in 2002, Sprich mit her was considered the big winner, as the film won the key categories of Best Film , Best Director and Best Screenplay as well as the Audience Awards for Director and Actor ( Javier Cámara ). Javier Cámara was also nominated for the regular award for Best Actor , but had to admit defeat to the Italian Sergio Castellitto , who was honored for his portrayal in the two films Bella Martha and L'ora di religione . Was also Javier Aguirresarobe as Best Cinematography nomination.
The film won the César as Best European film , the award of the Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma as Best Foreign Film , the Czech Lion as Best Foreign Language Film , the National Board of Review Award in the category Best Foreign Language Film and was in the same Category for the Guldbagge and the Premi David di Donatello nominated.
Speak to her once received the Goya , the most important Spanish film award , for best film music . The film was nominated in six other categories, including Best Film and Best Director .
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
In 2016, Sprich mit her took 28th place in a BBC survey of the 100 most important films of the 21st century .