Genre: Drama, Melodrama, Prison, Gay/Lesbian, Experimental, Tragedy, Thieves, Love
Plot: The curtain before the stage, decorated with salmon colored roses and golden tassels, opens to present a Pina Bausch dance spectacle, "Café Müller". Among the spectators, two men are sitting together by chance, they don't know each other. They are Benigno, a young nurse, and Marco, a forty-something writer. On the stage, filled with wooden chairs and tables, two women, their eyes closed and their arms stretched, are moving to the compasses of "The Fairy Queen" by Henry Purcell. The piece provokes such emotion that Marco breaks into tears. Benigno notices the shining tears of his casual companion in the darkness of the theatre's audience. He would like to tell him that he too is moved by the performance, but he doesn't dare. Months later, the two men meet again at "El Bosque", a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend, a bullfighter by profession, has been gored by a bull and has fallen into a coma. Benigno in fact is in charge of another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet student. When Marco passes by Alicia's room, Benigno approaches him. It is the beginning of an intense friendship, as linear as a roller coaster. During the time suspended within the walls of the clinic, the life of these four characters flows in all directions, past, present
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| Directed by |
Pedro Almodóvar
All About My Mother, Live Flesh, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown |
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| Cast |
Javier Cámara
Bad Education, Sex and Lucia, Torrente, the Stupid Arm of the Law | Darío Grandinetti
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Homenaje a Joaquín Luqui, Acapulco fest 2004, Samba pa' tí | | | | |
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