Speak with it

Parle with it ( Hable idiot ella ) is a Spanish film carried out by Pedro Almodóvar, left in 2002.

Synopsis

The curtain rises on a spectacle of Danse, with two spectators in the room who do not know each other: the first, Benigno, notice that its neighbor, Marco, let escape a tear from emotion.

With the private clinic, during the care that he lavishes to him, the Infirmier Benigno tells the spectacle with Alicia, a patient in the Coma, and even a dedication of Pina Bausch offers to him, celebrates it choreographer. Benigno is a man simple, nice, obliging, devoted, who devotes himself entirely to this hospitalized young woman.

After having seen an interview of it on television, the Journaliste Marco is interested in Lydia, one will torera high-speed motorboat of the Tauromachie in Spain because its strong personality decided it to write an article on it. After a bullfight, it approaches it to this end, but she immediately asks him to bring back it to Madrid. During their discussion, it mentions not to want to tackle the subject of its recent separation of Niño de Valence, a bullfighter who was his lover. Arrived at it, it takes fear because of a Serpent, that Marco will kill. It finally accompanies it with a hotel and she accepts the idea of the report.

With the private clinic El Bosque, it is evoked that Alicia underwent there is four years a low register road accident and that she is in the coma since.

Marco and Lydia like and start a love affair.

" A few months later. " Lydia announces in Marco that it must speak to him, that it will do it after the bullfight. An accident marks the sporting event: Lydia is seriously touched by the Taureau and is carried out in a hospital.

" Three weeks later. " Lydia is in the coma; Marco meets Niño which came to return visit to his/her ex-partner. By seeking the Médecin, it observes by chance, by a half-opened door, the care given to a patient in the coma. The doctor comments on that there is little chance that Lydia never finds the Conscience. While passing by again in front of the half-opened door, Marco is called by the Benigno male nurse. They discuss one moment; Marco notices the photograph dedicated by Pina Bausch and Benigno recognizes its neighbor with the spectacle of dance.

Mr Roncero comes to return visit to his Alicia daughter. He mentions in Benigno the consultation that he had given him some time ago as a Psychiatre, which had remained without continuation, and questions it as for its sexuality. Benigno confirms to the doctor that it is interested in the men and that it has somebody in his life at present. After the father left, Benigno reports the meeting with one of his/her colleagues, by mentioning the anecdote of its sexuality and while cancelling to be homosexual.

At the hospital, Marco becomes acquainted with Katerina, the professor of dance of Alicia; Benigno mentions that the school of dance is opposite at his place.

" Four years more tôt." Since at his place, or its mother with which it lives, Benigno admires the courses of dance opposite its building, in particular one of the pupils. Whereas this one leaves the course, Benigno notices that it loses its wallet in the street; it catches up with it for returning to him. It is called Alicia and it accompanies back it until at it, where the cabinet of its father psychiatrist is also located, Doctor Roncero. A few days pass and Benigno, anxious not to re-examine Alicia with the courses more, takes appointment with Doctor Roncero. During the consultation, Benigno tells little him, but it is very felt attached to his mother and one learns that it is virgin. By leaving the psychiatrist, he ventures further in the apartment, discovers the room of Alicia, conceals a bar with hair then fall nose to nose with Alicia. He says to him not to be afraid and leaves the places. The week finishes with many Pluie S on the city.

Benigno indicates to Marco that he then learned that Alicia had had an car accident, under the rain, and that his/her father urged it to deal exclusively with it. He even adds that he thus lived the four more beautiful years of his life. Marco evokes that it does not arrive even at touching Lydia and Benigno explains to him why it is necessary to speak to him, like it does it with Alicia. Certain colleagues of Benigno wonder about this devotion ambiguity to a woman of which he knows, professionally, all the physical intimacy, but of the Rumeur S indicate that he would be homosexual.

Being interested in the leisures of Alicia - the cinema inter alia -, Benigno will see a silent film, the lover who narrows . He tells the film with Alicia, the history of a young scientist, Alfredo, which tests the beverage of his/her partner chemist, Amparo, and narrows until measuring a half-dozen of centimetres. One night, Alfredo explores the naked body of his/her partner, until taking refuge with deepest of its being, definitively…

" One month later. " In the presence of Marco, Benigno joined together Alicia and Lydia on the terrace. Marco remembers the Mariage of his/her ex-small friend, Angela, to which it had assisted with Lydia. It mentioned in Lydia the problems of drugs of Angela as its sorrows when it had separated from it. Lydia wanted to speak to him after the bullfight to which they went.

With the private clinic, Marco meets Niño. This one teaches him that Lydia and it had gone back together a month before the accident and Marco includes/understands then what it wanted to speak to him. It goes in the room of Alicia, surprises it naked and only, then Benigno arrives. He announces that he will leave on a journey, then leaves the room. The colleague of Benigno arrives and they discuss absence of rules at Alicia, " Only of the delay " according to Benigno. One month later, the same question arises but Benigno thinks that all is normal; the nurse decides to speak to the head doctor about it.

Marco and Benigno lunch together. Marco mentions that it could not go to say goodbye to Alicia because one makes him undergo examinations. Benigno announces to him whereas it will marry, with Alicia! Marco completely gives it to the order, that the idea is absurd.

The direction of the hospital tackles the problem of the Grossesse of Alicia, which it was Viol ée. It is Benigno which filled all the reports/ratios and a male nurse was pilot of his discussion with Marco as for his idea of marriage! …

" Jordan, eight month later. " Marco works on a beach and learns by the newspaper that Lydia was buried. It calls the private clinic and learns that Benigno does not work there any more and that it is in Prison, for the rape from Alicia. Marco turns over to Spain. At the time of a phone conversation, Benigno requests his/her friend to get information about what it is occurred of Alicia because it does not know it. They meet finally; Benigno rents its apartment to him and recalls him that it wishes to receive news of Alicia.

Since the apartment of Benigno, Marco can also observe the school of dance to him. It undergoes a shock because it sees Alicia which, convalescent, came to return visit in Katerina.

Marco discusses with the lawyer Benigno which explains to him why it was considered preferable that this one is not put at the current that the state of Alicia had returned to the normal following its Accouchement and that the baby was still-born child.

Marco meets Benigno again but the truth does not say to him. A few days later, it receives a message of Benigno, which decided to escape. Marco includes/understands the hidden direction immediately and goes of them to the prison but it arrives too late: Benigno was poisoned with the Médicament S to also fall into the coma, but is deceased for him. Some time later, Marco will speak with the cemetery with Benigno and reveals to him that Alicia is alive.

Marco is with the theater, by chance with the same meeting as Alicia and Katerina; this one recognizes it. Marco and Alicia make knowledge. " Marco and Alicia".

Data sheet

original Title: Hable idiot ella
Realization: Pedro Almodóvar
Scenario: Pedro Almodóvar
Image: Javier Aguirresarobe
Music: Alberto Iglesias
Sound: Miguel Rejas
Assembly: Pepe Salcedo
Artistic director: Antxón Gómez
Production: Agustin Almodóvar for El Deseo S.A, A3TV and Via DIGITAL
Country: Spain
Lasted: 112 min
Format: film colors
Coming out date: March 15th, 2002 (Spain), April 10th, 2002 (France)

Distribution

Javier Cámara : Benigno Martín, the male nurse
Darío Grandinetti: Marco Zuluaga, the journalist
Leonor Watling: Alicia Roncero, the patient in the coma, former dancer (VF: Barbara Delsol)
Rosario Flora: Lydia González, will torera it
Geraldine Chaplin: Katerina Bilova, the professor of dance of Alicia
Mariola Fuentes: Rosa, the nurse colleague of Benigno
Paz Vega: Amparo, the woman of the Lover who narrowed , the film in the film
Adolfo Fernandez: Niño of Valencia, ex-lover of Lydia
Pedregal Photogravure: Doctor Roncero, father of Alicia
Elena Anaya: Angela, the ex-small friend of Marco
Fucked Bausch: itself

Around film

Of the subtitles rythment the film; they are marked between quotation marks in the synopsis above.
the film opens on a representation of Café Müller , a famous spectacle of the chrorégraphe Pina Bausch.
the first name of the main character, Benigno, is a wink with Roberto Benigni, with which Almodóvar wished to work.
the private clinic where Benigno works names El Bosque , i.e. wood, where one finds there two beautiful with the wood sleeping, of which one will be awaked by its Prince charming, more than by a kiss!
the dumb small film that Benigno discovers with the cineclub, the Lover which narrows ( Amante menguante of Hilario Muñoz), is a homage to traditional American cinema of the fantastic, the Man who narrows Jack Arnold.
Marco is reminded moments melancholic persons which he lived with Lydia, of which an evening during which they listen to a singer to interpret the standard " Cucurrucucú Paloma" ; Caetano Veloso plays its own part and interprets this famous song. One can also observe the presence like being reproduced of Marisa Paredes and Cécilia Roth, actresses fetishes of Almodovar, in particular in film All on my mother.
the priest who Marie Angela, the former friend of Marco, is Agustin Almodovar, brother of Pedro and producer of film.
Pedro Almodovar also refers other cinematographic in its film: One can twice observe a book with the yellow cover posed on the bedside table of Alicia, representing the actor Robert Mitchum in the Night of the hunter of Charles Laughton. Moreover, the omnipresent code of the colors throughout film (red, yellow and blue) can be interprêté like a reference to Pierrot insane the and the Contempt of Jean-Luc Godard.

External bonds

Site in Spanish
Film club of Caen

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