Parle avec elle

I don't know. I only watched this subtitled movie because I had heard it was nominated for some awards. I'm not sure why. I found it dull, not much happens, not to mention a guy rapes a comatose women who he has been obsessed with. At least it doens't show that in the movie. It just moves along slowly. And the title is a play on irony. There are two guys infatuated with comatose women. One talks to his love while the other can't stand to see his love laying there. FINAL VERDICT: This movie is mostly about one sick puppy who takes care of a girl in a coma who he watched as a dancer before her accident. It's just not entertaining enough to spend nearly 2 hours on.

People talking about Pedro Almodóvars masterpiece and so on... Let's just not exaggerate. Hable con ella is a good movie but I wouldn't call it a masterpiece. The story is easy to follow even if you don't speak the language, and it keeps you interested enough to try to find out what really happened with those comatose girls. I hate matadors so I was actually glad one was in a coma, she could not suffer enough. All the actors played their role brilliantly. Javier Cámara as Benigno Martín gave a good performance playing the weird nurse. I will for sure watch more movies from Almodóvar. He has his own typical style of making movies and it's different then most of the movies I watch.

The story is about two men and the girls they love who are now in comas. I really loved the beauty of the movie. The actors are fantastic and they are greatly helped by the entire cast and a weird but good story. Though initially I felt like that, the ending of the story made me change that opinion. I thought about it a lot. It was an ethical ending, but not the one that did poetic justice. Maybe if it was a documentary I would have liked it more. I personally would not recommend this movie, but seeing that it has a massive 8.0 rating here, I guess I am the exception.

but not great Pedro Almodovar film. Two men are involved and in love with two comatose women. They meet, bond and learn about life, love and intimacy through each other. Sounds boring but it's enthralling. It's hard to put into words how absorbing this film really is. The acting is just OK, but the film looks beautiful and there are two sequences in it that will either shock or amuse you. This isn't Almodovar's best film (that's "Live Flesh") but well worth catching.

This film so intensely dehumanizes comatose women and so romanticizes and apologizes for rapists that you see all these nauseating reviews applauding it. People get so sucked in that they are not even realizing what they are watching - the rape of patients in comas. Read that again. This is manipulative filmmaking at it's WORST. Sickening and insulting to abuse victims.

This is a film about two men that meet by chance that happen to be looking after two women in a coma. One was his girlfriend who was a bullfighter and got injured. The other is a ballet dancer who got hurt and his being look after by the male nurse. What ensues is a great bond between the two men over the women they love. The story is told in some flashbacks to when the bullfighter and her man were together and when the nurse met the ballet dancer. The acting as always is magnificent in every Almadovar film. The dialogue is terrific and the story very compelling. You really get wrapped up in these four characters. It is a tragic story but a very beautiful sexy and heartfelt one. This is real cinema at its best. 4 stars.

this motion picture violates all the rules of crimes against humanity. pancakes have more verve than any thing that appears on a screen of any size with this playground flick. these kids stand in front of a camera and do stuff. and then later they do stuff. some of them speak and say stuff. it is all close and intimate and shot from the hip yes, the camera is on someones hip. the dialog is adapted from a text on a napkin. there is a surprise here people paid the thieves to do this thing to them

I watched this movie last night and I think that it was one of the worst movies ever. The story line drags on about two men who form a somewhat freakish friendship at the hospital where the women they love are in comas. The male nurse is a sick person who should never have been allowed to be a nurse. There is also a disturbing sex scene that should make it so that the movie is taken off the market. Bottom line, SAVE your MONEY and TIME. RENT something DIFFERENT!!

The movie focuses on two romance stories. Benigno (Javier Camera) has spend most of his life caring for his recently deceased mother even though he's a virgin, he feels deeply in love in Alicia (Leonor Watling), a ballet dancer, who's dance studio he watches from his window. When an accident leaves her in coma, she's admitted to the hospital, where Benigno is a nurse. His life purpose become taking care of her. While spending most of his days and nights in the hospital, he meets Marco (Dario Grandinetti), a writer, who's coming to terms with his own tragedy. His girlfriend Lydia (Rosario Flores), a bullfighter is also in a deep coma, after a frightening accident during a bull fight. Because of similarity of their situations, Benigno befriends Marco, and encourages him to talk to Lydia, as he does to Alicia. Almodovar twists the relationships in very unexpected ways, leading in the end into surprising final.