--- product_id: 55184900 title: "Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella) DVD" price: "€ 10.12" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.gr/products/55184900-talk-to-her-hable-con-ella-dvd store_origin: GR region: Greece --- # Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella) DVD **Price:** € 10.12 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella) DVD - **How much does it cost?** € 10.12 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.gr](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/55184900-talk-to-her-hable-con-ella-dvd) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's Talk To Her is his least stylised, most accessible and arguably greatest movie. Covering the same, highly provocative terrain as Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle and The Smiths' "Girlfriend in a Coma", Almodovar forges a work that's funny, compassionate, engaging and deeply touching. Unusually for Almodovar, the emphasis is on the two male characters, with the female leads spending much of the film as "objects" in a vegetative state. Dario Grandinetti plays Marco, a journalist who befriends Lydia (Rosario Flores), a female bullfighter. Following a goring in the ring, she lapses into a coma. At the clinic where she is kept on life support, Marco meets a somewhat effete male nurse, Benigno (Javier Camara) who lovingly tends to a ballet student, Alicia, also chronically comatose. They strike up a friendship, their respective stories emerging through flashbacks. Both, however, respond to their common fate in different ways. Marco is distraught at the loss of Lydia, whereas the dysfunctional Benigno is blissful, tending to Alicia, for whom he nourished an obsession prior to accident. Reduced to being a vegetable, she is fully, unresistingly, his. It's a tribute to Almodovar that he is able to handle the outlandish, potentially appalling subject matter of Talk To Her with such finesse. Emotionally, it's often on a knife edge; there are moments when you don't know whether to laugh, gasp or sigh. But when ultimately you find yourself welling with tears of sympathy for an alleged rapist, you realise what a master filmmaker Almodovar is. On the DVD: Talk To Her offers an excellent transfer of a visually handsome movie. Extras are a little disappointing--just trailers for Almodovar's more outlandish Live Flesh and All About My Mother . -- David Stubbs Pedro Almodovar's tale of dance, bullfighters, love and comas. Benigno (Javier Cámara) is a housebound nurse who falls in love with a young dancer, Alicia (Leonor Watling), he sees rehearsing through his window. Marco (Darío Grandinetti) is a journalist who falls in love with a bullfighter, Lydia (Rosario Flores), after being assigned to interview her. When Alicia and Lydia are involved in separate accidents which send them both into a comas, Benigno and Marco meet at the hospital and unpredictable consequences promptly ensue. Review: animal challenges and a surprising turn of events - Talk To Her presents a maze of contradictions, as so often in Almodovar's films; it is one of his most gentle creations, yet also one of the most subversive, and throws quite a challenge to the viewer in terms of accepting what is basically not acceptable - something he had previously done in Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! But what happens here is more disturbing than that in the way it cuts to the very heart of civilised values. The character whose actions it concerns is also someone we have built up much sympathy for ... The film essentially tells of two couples: a bullfighter, Lydia, who gets gored and is in a coma, and her boyfriend Marco who keeps coming to the clinic where she is being kept; and another young woman, Alicia, in a coma after a car accident, cared for by a male nurse called Benigno. The last named, played by Javier Camara, is really at the heart of the film, and gives a performance of remarkable subtlety and truth. He is so unlike a Hollywood screen hero, or villain, and fills the screen in his unique way. The film raises questions about feminism, bullfighting, sexuality, caring, friendship, and ritual, and the plot is nothing if not unexpected. It also features dancing from Pina Bausch and her company, and a fantastic spoof of a b/w film that seems based on The Incredible Shrinking Man, given a startllngly sexual cast - the effect is quite amazing, a bit like the dream sequence in Spellbound. However the 'real-life' drama playing around it is more compelling than Hitchcock's film. All the actors are very good, but Camara lifts it into a different league in what is surely the best role we have seen him in in Britain. He seems to completely become Benigno, and quietly shake all our assumptions about the morality of sex. It starts out rather too much about bullfighting for my liking, presenting the costumes in a rather fetishised light, but this ties in with the theme of clothing in the hospital context, and allows the sense of an ambiguous commentary on women in 'male' professions. Then an unwelcome snake has to be killed as well, fortunately never appearing on camera. As it proceeds, however, the emphasis shifts entirely and it ends up being very moving, in the image of the fantastic Benigno. Review: Love this film! - Amoldavar in top form, great film, great soundrack. And great seller too, well priced and arrived quickly. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Contributor | Caetano Veloso, Dario Grandinetti, Elena Anaya, Fele Martínez, Geraldine Chaplin, Javier Aguirresarobe, Javier Cámara, Leonor Watling, Malou Airaudo, Mariola Fuentes, Paz Vega, Pedro Almodóvar, Pina Bausch, Rosario Flores Contributor Caetano Veloso, Dario Grandinetti, Elena Anaya, Fele Martínez, Geraldine Chaplin, Javier Aguirresarobe, Javier Cámara, Leonor Watling, Malou Airaudo, Mariola Fuentes, Paz Vega, Pedro Almodóvar, Pina Bausch, Rosario Flores See more | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 275 Reviews | | Format | PAL | | Genre | Special Interests | | Global Trade Identification Number | 05060002831137 | | Language | Spanish | | Manufacturer | Studiocanal | | Number of discs | 1 | | Runtime | 1 hour and 48 minutes | ## Product Details - **Genre:** Special Interests - **Format:** PAL - **Contributor:** Caetano Veloso, Dario Grandinetti, Elena Anaya, Fele Martínez, Geraldine Chaplin, Javier Aguirresarobe, Javier Cámara, Leonor Watling, Malou Airaudo, Mariola Fuentes, Paz Vega, Pedro Almodóvar, Pina Bausch, Rosario Flores - **Language:** Spanish - **Runtime:** 1 hour and 48 minutes ## Images ![Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella) DVD - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51pSuiDXZmL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ animal challenges and a surprising turn of events *by S***G on 7 November 2015* Talk To Her presents a maze of contradictions, as so often in Almodovar's films; it is one of his most gentle creations, yet also one of the most subversive, and throws quite a challenge to the viewer in terms of accepting what is basically not acceptable - something he had previously done in Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! But what happens here is more disturbing than that in the way it cuts to the very heart of civilised values. The character whose actions it concerns is also someone we have built up much sympathy for ... The film essentially tells of two couples: a bullfighter, Lydia, who gets gored and is in a coma, and her boyfriend Marco who keeps coming to the clinic where she is being kept; and another young woman, Alicia, in a coma after a car accident, cared for by a male nurse called Benigno. The last named, played by Javier Camara, is really at the heart of the film, and gives a performance of remarkable subtlety and truth. He is so unlike a Hollywood screen hero, or villain, and fills the screen in his unique way. The film raises questions about feminism, bullfighting, sexuality, caring, friendship, and ritual, and the plot is nothing if not unexpected. It also features dancing from Pina Bausch and her company, and a fantastic spoof of a b/w film that seems based on The Incredible Shrinking Man, given a startllngly sexual cast - the effect is quite amazing, a bit like the dream sequence in Spellbound. However the 'real-life' drama playing around it is more compelling than Hitchcock's film. All the actors are very good, but Camara lifts it into a different league in what is surely the best role we have seen him in in Britain. He seems to completely become Benigno, and quietly shake all our assumptions about the morality of sex. It starts out rather too much about bullfighting for my liking, presenting the costumes in a rather fetishised light, but this ties in with the theme of clothing in the hospital context, and allows the sense of an ambiguous commentary on women in 'male' professions. Then an unwelcome snake has to be killed as well, fortunately never appearing on camera. As it proceeds, however, the emphasis shifts entirely and it ends up being very moving, in the image of the fantastic Benigno. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Love this film! *by K***R on 26 October 2019* Amoldavar in top form, great film, great soundrack. And great seller too, well priced and arrived quickly. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The best Almodovar? *by M***D on 17 January 2014* Posssibly the best of Almodovar's films. Very attaching, true and human, with lovable story and characters. It's not always clear why a movie is more pleasing than others, but this one is definitely a pleasant one and gains your approval and liking. ## Frequently Bought Together - Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella) DVD - All About My Mother DVD - Volver [DVD] [2006] --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.gr/products/55184900-talk-to-her-hable-con-ella-dvd](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/55184900-talk-to-her-hable-con-ella-dvd) --- *Product available on Desertcart Greece* *Store origin: GR* *Last updated: 2026-05-25*