Two men develop an unlikely friendship in plivate clinic for coma patients in Pedro Almodovar's strangely moving melodrama "Talk To Her."

Benigno (Javier Cámara) is the nurse of Alicia, a beautiful young dancer who has been comotose for the last four years. Marco Zuloaga (Darío Grandinetti), a travel writer prone to sudden outbreaks of tears, is the devastated lover of the injured bull fighter Lydia (Rosario Flores). Through a complicated narrative of flashbacks and a stunning seven-minute long black and white silent film, the Spanish enfant terrible ("All About My Mother," "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown") explores the nature of loneliness. Moving, stylized, and full of insightful surprises.