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Tina Huang

http://wp.2nono.com/317/she-quietly-told-talk-to-her

http://www.cinema.com/film/7583/hable-con-ella/synopsis.phtml

Outline

• Introduction - brief introduction of Talk to Her - characters• Pina Bausch’s dance - Café Muller - Mazurca Fogo• Mouth• Marco & Lydia• Benigno & Alicia• Marco & Benigno

Plot summary

• Talk to Her (Hable con ella) (2002) is directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

• It is a story about two men, Marco and Benigno and two women, Lydia and Alicia who are both in deep coma.

• issues: love, desire, obsession, loneliness, sadness and lack of communication

http://moviesinframes.tumblr.com/post/1172768781/hable-con-ella-talk-to-her-2002-dir-pedro

characters

• Marco - an Argentinean, sentimental

and mysterious, will be touched by little things and cry

- a wandering journalist and also a travel guide writer

- falls in love with Lydia, but actually still loves his ex-girlfriend, Angela

• Benigno - means harmless or benig

n in Spanish → ironic - a personal nurse of Alicia - in order to take care of his

mother, he studies beauty care and hairdressing, but his mother still passed away after twenty

years

http://www.almodovarlandia.com/almodovarlandia/actors/camara.htm

http://www.almodovarlandia.com/almodovarlandia/actors/grandinetti.htm

characters• Lydia

- a bullfighter and Marco’s girlfriend

- in deep coma after an accident during a bullfight

• Alicia

- a beautiful dance student who lies in a coma and is taking care by Benigno whom obsessed with her

http://www.ahashare.com/torrents-details.php?id=61551

http://www.english.udel.edu/ifs/filmsfall2003.htm

Pina Bausch’s dance - Café Muller • The opening scene → the clue and theme of Talk to Her

• “In the opening scene, you see these women who are walking around blind and sleepwalking. From that moment on, I am telling the audience that there are going to be two women with closed eyes who will be facing this world full of obstacles. We don't know what these obstacles are but they have to face them. There are two men watching this spectacle. They are sitting next to each other but they do not know each other. One of them cries and the other one is curious about why the other is crying.”

(guardian.co.uk)

http://mypaper.pchome.com.tw/prudencio/post/1313222727

Pina Bausch’s dance - Mazurca Fogo• The ending scene → a clue that Marco and Alicia will beco

me a couple

• Begin with the sadness and long sigh → Benigno ends up his life by committing suicide

• several couples are dancing in the country then leave only a men and a woman on stage in kind of happy atmosphere → represents Marco and Alicia are going to become a couple

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/1267/picture:4

http://reassurance.blogspot.com/2009_12_01_archive.html

mouth

• Functions:

- eat and drink →for surviving

- kiss → love and desire

- communication → express the emotions inside and also response to the outside world

• an organ of desire, both physical and mental• Kiss scene between Marco and Lydia →

the scene Marco wipes spit form his lips

http://blog.xuite.net/yanfu.su7268/clark/27830553

Marco & Lydia• Both of them are loneliness and they are lack of comm

unication • They both love their ex-boyfriend and ex-girlfriend• Marco can't stop expressing himself → cannot listen to

what Lydia want to tell him• Lydia → like her father's son• Caetano Veloso's song → a metaphor for what Marco i

s going through. ‧Marco’s love → only one way, like monologue

http://blog.libertytimes.com.tw/russiablue/2007/11/21/5816

Benigno & Alicia• Alicia cannot express herself at all.• Benigno →almost like his mother's daughter, not a son• Alicia is the meaning of Benigno’s life →he project his

mother on Alicia• Amante Menguante (Shrinking Lover) → a metaphor f

or what goes on in the clinic, Benigno’s desire toward Alicia and the ending as a symbol of Benigno’s death

http://gifake.tumblr.com/post/1667819532/hable-con-ella-talk-to-her-2002

Marco & Benigno• The scene Marco talks with Benigno in the prison → specia

l feelings between them• “There was almost this sense of two bodies becoming one.

At that moment, there is nobody in the world that loves Benigno as much as Marco does. This is almost a moment of romantic love.” (guardian.co.uk)

• Benigno leaves his house for Marco which he prepares for himself and Alicia → Marco lives in Benigno’s house and watch the dance classroom that Benigno used to do

• Marco and Alicia will become a couple

http://www.mask9.com/node/8917

Works Cited & References

• Almodóvar, Pedro. Talk to Her. 2002.

• Hable con ella en Pedro Almodovar, pagina oficial 27 April 2011

<http://clubcultura.com/clubcine/clubcineastas/almodovar/hableconella/hableconella.htm>

• Guardian/NFT interview: Pedro Almodovar. guardian.co.uk 27 April 2011

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2002/jul/31/features.pedroalmodovar>