Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 05/27/2003
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: Espanol/French
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 114 min
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
Pedro Almodóvar follows his international success
All About My Mother with an offbeat
drama that explores the friendship of two men brought together under unusual but strangely similar circumstances.
Benigno (
Javier Camára) is a male nurse whose apartment overlooks a dance studio run by
Katerina (
Geraldine Chaplin); he often sits on his balcony and watches one of
Katerina's students,
Alicia (
Leonor Watling), and he finds himself becoming infatuated with her. When
Alicia is severely injured in an auto accident that leaves her in a coma,
Benigno discovers she has been admitted to the hospital where he works, and he spends his days caring for a woman he now deeply loves but has barely met.
Marco (
Darío Grandinetti) is a journalist who was assigned to interview
Lydia (
Rosario Flores), a well-known female bullfighter whose on-the-rocks romance with another toreador, "
El Niño de Valencia" (
Adolfo Fernández), has made her the focus of the tabloid press. During
Marco's interview with
Lydia, he goes out of his way to treat her kindly, and she appears to return his attention. During the bullfight which follows,
Lydia is gored by the bull, and is now in a coma;
Marco is certain his interview broke her steely concentration, and he spends most of his days at the hospital, convinced her injuries are his fault.
Alicia and
Lydia are both housed in the same ward of the same hospital, and in time
Benigno and
Marco become close friends, bonding in their shared devotion to women who cannot return their affection.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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