The New York Times by A.O. Scott
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.
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Spain · 2002
Rated R · 1h 52m
Director Pedro Almodóvar
Starring Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores, Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti
Genre Drama, Romance
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Male nurse Benigno becomes infatuated with a complete stranger when he watches dancer Alicia practicing from the anonymity of his apartment. After a car accident, Alicia is brought to the hospital where Benigno serendipitously happens to be her caregiver. When wounded bullfighter Lydia is brought into the same ward, her companion, Marco, and Benigno form an unlikely friendship.
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
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.
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
One of Almodóvar's most challenging pictures, jumping around in time and sending a large gallery of characters through a wide variety of situations -- will find him again at the peak of his powers.
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
This quiet yet jolting meditation on love, obsession, loneliness, friendship and fate has the quality to entrance you through a first viewing, and compel you to take its themes and characters home with you for further consideration.
Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern
Beautiful (sometimes sublimely so), daring (sometimes outrageously so), seriously crazed and terrifically funny.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Liam Lacey
Pure cinematic intoxication, a wildly inventive mixture of comedy and melodrama, tastelessness and swooning elegance, bodies with the texture of fresh peaches, and angular faces Picasso would have loved.
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
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.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
This ode to the peculiar strength and flexibility of love, romantic and platonic, is simultaneously perverse, overwrought, deeply creepy and truly moving, a high-wire act that finds humor in the grotesque and hope in emotional malformation.
New York Magazine (Vulture) by Peter Rainer
Talk to Her affects some people very deeply, while others, like me, find it high-grade kitsch.
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
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.
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