TALK TO HER

(HABLE CON ELLA)

A FILM BY PEDRO ALMODVAR

112 Minutes. Rated R by the MPAA. In Spanish with English subtitles.

A Sony Pictures Classics Release.

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Cast Benigno

Marco Alicia Lydia

Katarina, the Dance Teacher Rosa

Matilde Nurse A Amparo Alfredo

Nio de Valencia ngela

TV Host Nio de Valencias Agent

Lydias Sister Lydias Assistant

Lydias Sisters Husband Himself

Musicians

Nurse B Doctor

Alicias Father Psychiatrists Receptionist

Head Nurse Priest

Alfredos Mother Hospital Director

Nurse Hospital Receptionist

Public Official Concierge

Lawyer Prison Director

Herself Herself

Swimmer Ben

Dance Academy Employee Lawyers Receptionist

Public Official Pianist

JAVIER CMARA DARO GRANDINETTI LEONOR WATLING ROSARIO FLORES GERALDINE CHAPLIN MARIOLA FUENTES LOLA DUEAS BEATRIZ SANTIAGO PAZ VEGA FELE MARTNEZ ADOLFO FERNNDEZ ELENA ANAYA LOLES LEN JOS SANCHO ANA FERNNDEZ ANGEL INFANTES YIYO CARLOS GARCA CAMBERO CAETANO VELOSO JACQUES MORELENBAUM JORGE HELDER PEDRO S MAMEN SEGOVIA ROBERTO ALVREZ HELIO PEDREGAL ADELA DONAMARA CARMEN MACHI AGUSTN ALMODVAR SONIA GRANDE JOSERRA CADIANOS ISMAEL MARTNEZ LOLA GARCA ESTHER GARCA CHUS LAMPREAVE MICHEL RUBEN JUAN FERNNDEZ PINA BAUSCH MALOU AIRAUDO FERNANDO IGLESIAS BEN LINDBERGH ANA SANZ YUYI BERINGOLA CARLOS MIGUEL MIGUEL VCTOR MATOS

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Filmmakers

Written and directed by Executive Producer

Director of Production Director of Photography

Editor Music

Artistic Design Associate Producer

Make Up Hair Artist

Costume Design Sound Mixing

Choreography Masurca Fogo and Caf Mller

Second Operator and SteadiCam Casting

First Assistant Director Sound Editing and Editing Assistants

Special Effects DDT

Special Effects Team

Mechanics

Collaborators

Mad Pix Company Supervisor Mad Pix Production

PEDRO ALMODVAR AGUSTN ALMODVAR ESTHER GARCA JAVIER AGUIRRESAROBE A.E.C JOS SALCEDO ALBERTO IGLESIAS ANTXON GMEZ MICHEL RUBEN KARMELE SOLER FRANCISCO RODRGUEZ SONIA GRANDE MIGUEL REJAS JOS A. BERMDEZ PINA BAUSCH JOAQUN MANCHADO SARA BILBATUA PEDRO LAZAGA ROSA ORTIZ MANUEL LAGUNA DIEGO GARRIDO DAVID MARTN MONTSE RIB XAVI BASTIDA MERCHE ARQUE JOS MANUEL MENESES JUAN SERRANO MIGUEL MAGE RODRGUEZ SIMONE FERRER VCTOR GARCA ISMAEL FERRER ADOLFO VILA ENRIC MASIP NOEMI ELAS MARISOL RIBE MNICA ALARCN HERMANOS ORCO JORGE CALVO VERNICA DEZ YOLANDA VERGARECHE

Composition

3D

Scanning and Processing Image: Shrinking Lover

Filming

Dream Factory Animatronics

FX Technicians

F & P:

FASA OYIBO FERRN PIQU RAMN GUZMN JUANCHO FERNNDEZ BRUNO DE LA CALVA OCANO MATEOS MONTSE CAPDEVILLA AA GONZLEZ LUIS GUERRA MANUEL DELGADO ISAAC DE LA POMBA PILAR CIENFUEGOS RUBEN VILLORIA ROBERTO GIRN CLAUDIO GELL PAULA MORN NACHO MELERO MANEL FONTES (CINEFECTO) COLIN ARTHUR SARAH POOLEY JAN ARNOLD EFE-X Special Effects RAL ROMANILLOS VILLALBA PAU COSTA MOELLER JULIO NAVARRO SEISDEDOS DAVID CAMPOS JOAQUN DORADO ANTHONY S. CICCARELI ISIDRO RUANO, FLIX CORDN, JOS CORDN and CARLOS MARTN

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TANZTHEATER, PINA BAUSCH

Cafe Mller

Set and Costume Design Costume Design

Sound

Make Up Dancers

ROLF BRZIK ANDREAS MAIER MATTHIAS BURKERT ANDREAS EISENSCHNEIDER BRBEL JUNGE PINA BAUSCH MALOU AIRAUDO NAZARETH PANADERO JEAN LAURENT SASPORTES DOMINIQUE MERCY MICHAEL STRECKER

Masurca Fogo

Set Designer Costume Designer

Dancers

PETER PABST MARIN CITO RUTH AMARANTE AIDA VAINIERI RAINER BEHR STEPHAN BRINKMANN JORGE PUERTA MICHAEL STRECKER DAPHNIS KOKKINOS DOMINIQUE MERCY FERNANDO SUELS FABIEN PRIOVILLE CRISTIANA MORGANTI JULIE SHANAHAN MELANIE MAURIN DITTA JASJFI AZUSA SEYAMA BARBARA HAMPEL REGINA ADVENTO ANDREY BEREZIN

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DANCE ACADEMY

Dance Teacher Pianist

Dancers

CATALINA ARTEAGA VCTOR MATOS RAQUEL AGUILERA LUCA BARBADILLO MIGUEL NGEL BOLO RAYCO CANO LARA HERNANDORENA ISAAC MONLLOR VICENTE PALOMO RAQUEL REY RAL MONTES NATALIA ROOK BENOIT CAUSSE MARINA JIMNEZ

BULLFIGHTERS

Bullfighter

Bullfighters Quadrille

JAVIER CONDE JOS CALVO PABLO A. SAUGAR VCTOR HUGO SAUGAR LUIS ANTONIO VALLEJO DAVID MORA MIGUEL NGEL CUBILLO ILUMINADO MENES CARLOS HERRANZ JUSTO MAESTRO JOS PABLO MONGE JOS JAVIER ELEJALDE DIEGO MORENO GUSTAVO VZQUEZ JOS GONZLEZ

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Synopsis 1. The curtain of salmon colored roses and heavy gold fringing which covers the stage is pulled back to reveal a Pina Bausch spectacle, Caf Mller. Among the spectators, two men are sitting together by chance. They dont know each other. They are Benigno (a young nurse) and Marco (a writer in his early forties). On the stage, filled with wooden chairs and tables, two women, their eyes closed and their arms extended, are moving to the music of The Fairy Queen, by Henry Purcell. The piece is so moving that Marco starts to cry. Benigno can see the gleam of his chance companions tears, in the darkness of the stalls. Hed like to tell him that he too is moved by the spectacle but he doesnt dare. Months later, the two men meet again at El Bosque, a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marcos girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet student. When Marco walks by the door of Alicias room, Benigno doesnt think twice before speaking to him. Its the start of an intense friendship... as lineal as a roller coaster. During this period of suspended time between the walls of the clinic, the lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny. 2. Talk to Her is a story about the friendship between two men, about loneliness and the long convalescence of the wounds provoked by passion. It is also a film about incommunication between couples, and about communication. About cinema as a subject of conversation. About how monologues before a silent person can be an effective form of dialogue. About silence as eloquence of the body, about film as an ideal vehicle in relationships between people, about how a film told in words can bring time to a standstill and install itself in the lives of the person telling it and the person listening. Talk to Her is a film about the joy of narration and about words as a weapon against solitude, disease, death and madness. It is also a film about madness, about a type of madness so close to tenderness and common sense that it does not diverge from normality. All About My Mother ended with a theater curtain opening to reveal a darkened stage. Talk to Her begins with the same curtain, also opening. The characters in All About My Mother were actresses, imposters or women with an ability to act on and off the stage; Talk to Her is about narrators, narrators who recount their own lives, men who talk to whoever can hear them and above all to those who cant.

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Pedro Almodovar interviews Pedro Almodovar

Actors and Actresses Q: From now on, well have to say that as well as being a good director of actresses youre also a good director of actors. The leading characters in Talk to Her are two men and the actors who play them are splendid. A: Im delighted its you whos said that. Yes, Javier Cmara and Daro Grandinetti are superb in very complicated roles. In any case, Talk to Her isnt my first film with male leads. Live Flesh is a testicular story. Matador and Law of Desire were also stories in which men determined the action. In Law of Desire even the girl (Carmen Maura) was a man. Q: Which do you find more enjoyable? A: What do you mean? Q: When it comes to working, actors or actresses? A: When theyre wonderful and can make me forget that Im the director and the writer, I enjoy both equally and very much. Over the course of fourteen feature films I admit that Ive found more good actresses than good actors, but its also true that Ive written more female roles than male or neuter roles. Q: Thats obvious... A: In another field, that of writing, and as a general rule, I believe that women inspire me to write comedies, and men, tragedies. Q: Why dont you do more comedies? A: The scripts done come out easily. But Im going to force it. Q: Can you force a script, the elements that make it up, the tone? A: No. Or you shouldnt, with the exception of documentaries and biographic films. Q: To what genre does Talk to Her belong? A. I dont know. All I know is that it isnt a western, or a film about CIA agents. Nor is it a James Bond film or a period piece.

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Q: It does have an element of that... A: Thats true, seven minutes to be precise,