The Frame

Talk to Her twines together two stories, one of a young man loving a ballerina from afar and becoming her nurse when she is put in a coma by a car accident, the other of a journalist and a female bullfighter who is gored by a bull and ends up comatose in the same hospital. The two men become close friends as they care for their charges. The film is more serious than some of Almodóvar’s others, and involves some events that make it difficult at times to continue to sympathize with the characters, and yet we do…Almodóvar is incredibly good at creating complex characters that elicit complex reactions. It’s a sweet film about friendship and love in non-traditional circumstances.
Well Above Average