Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

Lee Eisenberg If you've seen any of Pedro Almodóvar's movies, then you should know that he tends to focus on relationships and how the relationships can affect the people involved. "Hable con ella" ("Talk to Her" in English) looks at a most unusual kind of relationship: a four-way relationship between a pair of men caring for comatose women. As always, Almodóvar makes sure to create multidimensional characters, especially the female characters (contast that with Michael Bay's movies, wherein the women are just eye candy). The storytelling in flashback reminded me of Almodóvar's more recent "Broken Embraces", which told the story of damaged relationships. But however the story gets told, we have here one of the most profound and intellectually stimulating movies of the 21st century; not that I would expect otherwise from Spain's most famous director. In case you doubted that Almodóvar likes to push the limit, check out the movie-within-a-movie. Seriously, not even John Waters has ever come up with that! I highly recommend it. Outstanding direction and performances from all the cast members.

delightful-life The story is about two men and the girls they love who are now in comas. I really loved the beauty of the movie. The actors are fantastic and they are greatly helped by the entire cast and a weird but good story.Though initially I felt like that, the ending of the story made me change that opinion. I thought about it a lot. It was an ethical ending, but not the one that did poetic justice.Maybe if it was a documentary I would have liked it more.I personally would not recommend this movie, but seeing that it has a massive 8.0 rating here, I guess I am the exception.

gavin6942 Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.Pedro Almodovar has consistently made good films. This may not be his very best, or perhaps not even his second best, but with all his films being top-notch it still remains worth seeing.Where else can you see a film with the emotion of hope in the face of a woman with PVS? Americans today (2015) still remember Terri Schiavo and the torment it takes for a family to wait or pull the plug.As a bonus, we also get some very inventive silent film-style intertitles.

MartinHafer Many, many of the films of Pedro Almodóvar are creepy--and it's a rare one (such as "Volver") that isn't. Some are super-creepy but I can get past that because the films are so well written and directed ("The SKin I Live In" is a good example). And, some are just so creepy and downright nasty that I feel like I need to take a bath after seeing them ("What Have I Done to Deserve This?"). Well, "Talk to Her" falls somewhere between these last two categories--perhaps a bit towards category #3! While exceptionally well made, it is just gross and nasty and, perhaps, might be seen as a weird endorsement of deviant behavior.The film revolves around two men who love women who are in comas. One is a reporter who has fallen in love with a female bullfighter who was put into a coma after an unsuccessful bullfight. Another is a creepy guy who works at the long-term care facility. I say creepy because later you learn that his prize patient, who he dotes on lovingly, is a woman he was obsessed with BEFORE her accident that left her in a coma. Being with her and taking care of her is his life. However, it gets MUCH, MUCH worse. Later, this creepy little $&@* rapes the comatose woman. Folks learn about this when she ends up pregnant--pregnant and in a coma! There's more--and, in a way, it ends up looking almost like the film is endorsing the rape. Sort of the 'all's well that ends well' plot twist. As a guy who was a counselor years ago that worked with sex offenders, I found the film pretty sick. Part of this, I am sure, because of the work I did and my experiences (I now feel that therapy with sex offenders is pretty much a waste of time). But part of this is that the film just seems to almost romanticize a guy who is sick and gross and a criminal. See the film for yourself if you'd like. I just think Almodóvar stepped over the line with this one from being entertaining and very well made to being a bit depraved. By the way, although I am NOT a person who in any way endorses PETA and many of the extremist animal rights folks, I did find it disturbing seeing a bull tortured and killed for the film. Yes, I know bullfighting in legal in many places but it just seemed wrong to use the animal this way. Eat 'em, fine. But slowly killing an animal when it wasn't necessary, I am not fine with that.Also, at one point, Lydia says her father was only a banderillo. This is a person who works in the bullring and their job is to torment the bull by sticking metal spikes into its back before the matador enters the ring to eventually kill the animal.Finally, what is with that giant vagina fantasy sequence?! In a surreal or absurdist film it would have been pretty funny but here, once again, it's rather disturbing.