Screening, Talk to Her (2002)

A travel writer’s burgeoning relationship with a famed female matador is violently interrupted when she falls into a coma after a bullring tragedy, and while waiting at her hospital bedside, he meets a male nurse keeping a similar vigil over a comatose ballet dancer. Only Almodóvar could come up with such a deliciously ridiculous premise for a film, and only Almodóvar could make it into a melodrama of unusual emotional power. “The most mature work this director has ever brought to the screen… [has] the freakish, elegant calm of early Tennessee Williams.”

—The New York Times

This film is being presented as part of KinoSaito’s Spanish Language Film series, and will be introduced by an expert in film history with a facilitated Q&A discussion to follow.