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Influence: What it Really Means and How to Make it Work for You

Jenny Nabben

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The honest truth about influence: what it is, how it works and how you can do it better. Your...

My Partner, My Enemy: An Unflinching View of Domestic Violence and New Ways to Protect Victims

John Michael Leventhal

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The problem of domestic violence and partner abuse knows no bounds, can affect anyone, and when kept...

Acadia National Park: A Centennial Celebration of Maine's Great Wilderness

Tom Blagden and Christopher Camuto

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Created in 1916, and encompassing 45,000 acres on two islands and a mainland peninsula on the rugged...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Talk to Her (2002) in Movies

Sep 11, 2019 (Updated Sep 11, 2019)

Talk to Her (2002)

2002 | Drama, International

9.0

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Genre-busting Spanish drama almost feels like the film Hitchcock could have made if he'd spent thirty years in therapy. The story is told partly out of sequence but concerns two men devoted to women in comas: a bullfighter and a dance student. Slowly their stories unfold, and turn out to be quite different. Almodóvar's script is as subtle and playful as ever, cheerfully toying with audience assumptions and expectations - it's impossible to predict the way this story will go, and this is before we even get to the eye-popping silent movie interlude.

Brilliant performances from the two leads; for once, the female characters have a more secondary role but they are also well-played. All the vibrance and sensuousness of Almodóvar's other films, but this is a deeply serious, mature work. Perhaps his greatest achievement is to find pathos and sympathy in the most unlikely places imaginable, and conclude a film which goes to some very dark places on a definite note of implied hope. An excellent movie in every way.