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Plot summary
Benigno Martín and Marco Zuluaga sit near each other at a performance of Café Müller, and Benigno notices Marco crying. Marco works as a journalist and travel writer. He watches a television interview with Lydia González, a matador, and contacts her about an article. The two become friends and later lovers. Lydia is gored during a bullfight and falls into a coma, and Marco stays at her bedside in a clinic. There he becomes friends with Benigno, a nurse who cares for Alicia Roncero, a dance student in a coma. Benigno talks to Alicia as if she were awake, brings her mementos of dance and silent films, and tells Marco that women in comas understand men's troubles.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Talk to Her (2002)
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- Pedro Almodóvar won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Talk to Her, one of the few times a non-English-speaking film has won that category; the film also took the BAFTA for Best Film Not in the English Language and the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.
- Talk to Her was not submitted as Spain's pick for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; Spain selected Mondays in the Sun instead.
