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Talk to Me

Theatre on film is so stagy - the audience either give a standing ovation or walk out and the stage itself seems a too thin a place for magic to occur - but, in Almodovar's Talk to Her, perhaps because he films it so simply, he does get what it is to sit in a theatre and witness a performance.

That he is filming two dances by Pina Bausch helps. The trailer for Talk to Her only suggests the brilliance of the film, but it is cut to suggest that the whole film might be choreographed by her.

And, in addition, this: