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This is of no consequence to Benigno (Javier Camara). Sexually innocent, he learned caregiving by tending his invalid mother. He has transferred his skills and affections to Alicia (Leonor Watling), a ballet dancer struck down in an auto accident. He scarcely knows her. He fell in love with her from afar and exchanged only a few words with her as he quietly stalked her when she was still vital. Now he chatters endlessly to her--mostly about music, plays and movies, including an erotic silent film, brilliantly concocted by Almodovar, in which a tiny, shrunken man is seen traversing...
Marco (Dario Grandinetti), Talk to Her's other bereft male, is Benigno's opposite. He's a journalist who has fallen in love with a subject, a female matador named Lydia (Rosario Flores). Before her bullring goring, their relationship was the reverse of Benigno and Alicia's--relentlessly, often tormentedly verbal, because each was still emotionally involved with a previous lover. But now Marco sits mute and helpless by Lydia's bedside, articulating his pain only to his new friend Benigno...
...clear--a variation on E.M. Forster's famous dictum "Only connect." Now, though, Almodovar raises the stakes. The silent movie turns out to be the symbolic heart of the film. While we are transfixed by its hilarious transgressiveness, Benigno commits a real transgression: he makes love to helpless Alicia--and impregnates...
...Raymond Y. Rodham ’03 drunk-mailed longtime crush Alicia P. Bowden ’03 last Saturday night shortly after urinating in front of horrified bystanders in the Quincy elevator. “Ar yo seeing anyone ritnoew? I am sooooodru nk your hot,” Rodham commented in both the fifth and sixth Bowden-directed e-mails of the night...
...think there’s a tendency to want to portray them as the UC insiders—that’s not the case at all,” says Alicia Menendez ’05, a member of the duo’s campaign team. “They are just as disenchanted with things that go on here at Harvard and they have a real vision for what Harvard can be and will be under their presidency...