SPEAK WITH HER
Spain-2002
Address: Pedro Almodóvar
Interpreters: Javier Camera, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor
Watling, Rosary Flowers, Geraldine Chaplin
WHO KNOWS ALICIA EAST PAIS...
Although it is known Almodóvar like
director of women
preferredly, in Speaks with her is observed a noticeable attention on
the masculine personages, in this Benign case (Camera) and Frame
(Grandinetti) will be two men who fall in love with two women who are
in comma state. Alicia (Watling) is dancer and secret love of benign
that the spy daily from its room as a single person in front of the
academy of dances. Lydia (Flowers) is a bullfigther who in the heat of
Lydian of animals suffers a serious accident, whereas Alicia undergoes
an automobile incident. When the two women enter unconscious the
hospital, Benign, that is nurse of there, and Frame established a
great friendship at the same time that took care of of them.
"the brain of the women is a mystery and in this state" it is
***reflxed mng more in the
script of Almodóvar that plots a course
towards the accomplishment of a cinema more For export than its
previous films and cortometrajes marked by the excesses of actions
that entail in some cases to the little understanding of the dramatic
turns.
The thin line between the impossible tragedy and ridiculous situation,
loves or the solitude are subjects dealt with creativity by the
director in where catch pictures in charge of the German Pina Bausch,
the somewhat commercial appearance? of Caetano Veloso offering its
version of Cucurrucucu Dove or the insertion of a short one of
erótico dumb cinema (the declining lover) specially made by
Almodóvar and with the key presence of the actress Peace Fertile
valley. And here the debatable point: Cecilia Roth emerges almost
unnecessarily from the film, as well as Loles Leon incarnating to one
we could on the brink of madness say "to Conductor an attack of
nerves" or a low-achieving Mariola Sources in the paper of the
faithful nurse of the protagonist. In the matter of these typical
scenes of the Spanish director, almost unfinished or without
sustainable script it is possible to be affirmed that there are almost
no vestiges except for a sequence in where Frame kills to a serpent in
house of Lydia and that is everything.
In actoral matter, Ca''mara and Watling obtain solid personages, a luck
of tribute of the director is seen Vertigos of Hitchcock here or
perhaps an inspiration of Norman Bats in Benign in the remembered
Psychosis. On the other hand Watling composes an artistic Alicia and
of a pseudo country of the wonders (its sub-world with lava lamps and
pictures of classic dancers), the work is due to consider actoral that
implies to live in comma during but of half of the tape. Grandinetti
and Flores are not isolated of history but perhaps the script does not
leave space for coherent dialogues, since the relation of
love-obsession of Benign by Alicia is the wire of Speaks with her, and
although Benign its sexual odd habit is mistaken with given Alicia, we
cannot let think that its name perfectly was selected by the director:
Who can deny that Benign he is benign?