Talk to Her Critic Reviews
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When it's over, the realization of how much the movie means to you really sinks in; you can't get it out of your heart.Read the full review
No director since Fassbinder has been able to evoke such complex emotions with such problematic material.Read the full review
Like taking a drug everyone says is dynamite and impatiently wondering why the heck it's not kicking in. The kick in fact turns out to be real, and as powerful as advertised, but it doesn't necessarily hit you in any way you anticipated.Read the full review
The actors are outstanding, illuminating four different views of loneliness. But it's Camara's tour-de-force performance that anchors the film, that shocks and unnerves us.Read the full review
Beautiful (sometimes sublimely so), daring (sometimes outrageously so), seriously crazed and terrifically funny.Read the full review
Like everything else in this superb work of art, ''Shrinking Lover'' is exquisitely Almodóvarian. It's funny, tender, a little shocking, and it pays homage to what we know about movies: that they can move us beyond words.Read the full review
A movie of technical skill and rare depth of intellect and feeling.Read the full review
The marvelous new Talk To Her has elements that wouldn't have seemed out of place in an Almodóvar film of 20 years agoRead the full review
It is at once warmly humanistic and boldly innovative, raising philosophical questions but not answering them.Read the full review
Almodovar also manages to conclude the film on a hopeful note, and one that will have many audience members wishing that he will someday return to tell more about these characters.Read the full review
