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1724: 372:, a Euro-horror film about a mutilated, masked muscleman in love with her character. The film is directed by Máximo Espejo, an old director confined to a wheelchair after a stroke. Máximo is a mentor to Marina, and threatens to throw out a journalist who mentions the words "porn" and "junkie" in her presence. Máximo is secretly attracted to Marina and plans to enjoy what could be his last experience of directing a female lead. 403:
she is in love with her captor. Lola is astonished, but once convinced, she agrees to drive Marina to Ricky's hometown. They find him in the ruins of his family house in a deserted village, then the three climb into Lola's car to return to the city. When Lola accepts Ricky as a member of the family, saying that she will find Ricky a job within the week, Marina begins to cry, and they drive off together, singing "
391:, Marina's sister Lola, who is the film's assistant director, steals the show with a musical number. Worried about her sister's disappearance, Lola visits Marina's apartment and leaves a note. To avoid being discovered, Ricky moves Marina to her next door neighbor's apartment, which is empty, but the owner left his keys with Lola so she can water his plants while he is away during the summer. 380:
a toothache which normal painkillers do not relieve, as she is addicted to stronger drugs. Ricky says that he captured her, so that when she gets to know him better, she will fall in love and they will get married and have children. Marina declares she will never love him, enraged at being handcuffed, gagged and lashed to the bed. However, Ricky remains determined to win her heart.
671:. In spite of some dark elements, it can be described as a romantic comedy, and the director's clearest love story. Almodóvar described the film as a "romantic fairy tale". Ricky, in his violent courtship of Marina follows, in an exaggerated manner, the path of the romantic film genre like those made popular in the late 1950s by 860:, called the film "a terrible tender love story", agreeing with the director that the best scene was that in which Marina, initially held hostage by Ricky against her will, finally asks to be tied up by him so she will not be tempted to flee from the love he has successfully provoked in her. Critic Javier Maqua in 805:, a Spanish pop duo from the 1960s, suggesting Marina's happy resistance to Ricky's unconventional courtship. The wrap party scene breaks the hardship of the kidnapping scene. It presents Marina's sister Lola, played by Loles León, singing the bolero "Canción del Alma", a song popularized in Latin America by 394:
In the street again, Ricky is spotted by the dealer whom he attacked. Ricky is then beaten, robbed and left unconscious. During his absence, Marina tries to escape from her captivity. However, when Ricky returns covered with blood and cuts, she notices his vulnerability and devotion to her. She cares
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Marina is shocked and in pain, and persuades Ricky to take her to a doctor who can give her the necessary painkillers. When Ricky leaves her alone with the doctor, she cannot communicate her plight. They cannot obtain the drugs in the pharmacy, so Ricky tries to buy them on the black market. However,
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After filming the last scene, Marina prepares to change for the post-shoot party. Ricky follows her to her apartment. When she answers the door, Ricky forces his way in. He grabs her and headbutts Marina to silence her when she screams; he tapes her mouth and binds her with rope. Marina wakes up with
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Ricky's stated ambition is to be a good husband to Marina and a good father to their children. Indeed, the relationship between Marina and Ricky is meant, ultimately, to be a parody of how such relationships work, as if heterosexuality (and its consequence, marriage) are almost inevitably equivalent
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When he is about to leave to steal a car for the trip, Marina, who still considers herself his prisoner, tells him to keep her tied up so that she will not try to escape. However, in Ricky's absence, Lola re-enters the apartment and discovers Marina tied up and rescues her. Marina informs Lola that
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In the United States, the film was met with opposition from rating agencies and the public due to a lengthy sex scene and two sequences in which Marina and later her sister Lola sit on the toilet to urinate. Particularly controversial was the shot of Marina in a bath tub, pleasuring herself with a
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is essentially a love story, or rather a story of how someone attempts to construct a love story in the same way as he might study for a degree: by means of effort, will power, and persistence...when you have nothing, like my main character, you have to force everything. Including love. Ricky has
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The attorney for Miramax claimed that the AAP (Average American Parent) was not well served by a system that was lenient on films with hard violence and drug use, while being harsh with films depicting sex. Miramax lost its case in court, and the film was ultimately released unrated. However,
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overtones and portrayal of successful female abduction and abuse. Modern audiences have criticized Almodóvar for "... condon Ricky's behavior, suggesting that it's okay to brutalize and subjugate a woman so long as one is allegedly motivated by sincere passion". On the review aggregator
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When Ricky comes to the set, he steals some items, including the keys to Marina's apartment, and becomes an unwelcome presence in her life. Ricky, while wearing a wig, does a handstand to try to capture her attention, but Marina does not remember him and dismisses him.
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called Marina's request evidence of "the greatest intensity of love". Rossy de Palma, who plays a drug dealer in the film, explained that the film's kidnapping was not to be imitated in real life and was only justified by the "exceptional nature of the characters".
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in early 1990, was inauspicious. The projector broke down and in the following press conference Almodóvar, whose films have not been well understood in Germany, was subjected to heavy questioning about his homosexuality, drug abuse, and the Spanishness of his film.
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literally means "Tie Me Up!", while the second part of the English title, "Tie Me Down!", is presumably intended to suggest the idea of a lasting relationship. Almodóvar has consistently denied that the ropes within
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was an enormous success, becoming the highest-grossing domestic film of its year, reaching an audience of over a million. It had twice the audience of the most critically acclaimed Spanish film of that year,
1806: 613:, the main character is Segismundo, a half-man, half-beast who has been imprisoned for his whole twenty years; once released into the world, he finds that his violence is tamed by female beauty. 334:. The plot follows a recently released psychiatric patient who kidnaps an actress in order to make her fall in love with him. He believes his destiny is to marry her and father her children. 569:. The cords that tie us one to another become literal ropey metaphors in the film. It is a tale not of kinky sex, but of a sweeter human bondage, of loose ends tied into lover's knots. 962:
as the first film released with the new rating. This was especially helpful to films of an explicit nature that were previously assumed to be pornographic because of the X rating.
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The film was highly successful with both critics and audiences in Spain. Its United States release was entangled in controversy, instrumental in the implementation by the
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numerous other filmmakers had complained about the X rating given to their films, and in September 1990, the MPAA dropped the X rating and replaced it with the
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in the United States. A new documentary produced by Criterion was included among the extras, including some that were ported over from previous releases.
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and the notion that the savagery of the Beast is, in the presence of Beauty, tamed by gentler feelings. This has been a recurrent theme in films such as
1859: 490: 1889: 519: 496: 2173: 2138: 985:, but there are no other extras. The Region 2 DVD, released in the UK, includes an interview of Almodóvar by Banderas, footage of the premiere in 825: 901:, the film has an approval rating of 69% based on 32 reviews, with an average score of 6.20/10. The site's critics consensus reads: " 648: 527:, one of Spain's foremost actors, took the role of the film director. Almodóvar cast his own mother, Francisca Caballero, as Marina's mother. 31: 2203: 2143: 1685: 1662: 1639: 1616: 1593: 1570: 929: 338: 1022: 888:
was entangled in a rating classification battle and was the subject of heated debate. Eventually released unrated, the film was decried by
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The male lead was played by Banderas, in his fifth and most important collaboration with Almodóvar. His role in
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the film has a score of 55% based on reviews from 14 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
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itself would eventually be given that rating for a "scene of strong adult sensuality with nudity."
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is also rooted on the tradition of the horror film genre. Marina plays the lead in the horror film
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have any links with sadomasochism. There is no erotic charge to the ropes and gags. He explained:
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Ricky, a 23-year-old psychiatric patient, has been deemed cured and is released from a
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and recovering drug addict, whom he once slept with during an escape from the asylum.
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only (as the flamenco singers say) the night, the day, and the vitality of an animal.
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appearance discovered by Almodóvar in 1986, plays the small role of the drug dealer.
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for him, cleaning and sterilizing his wounds, and is struck by the realization that
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defeats the monster, so ultimately Marina will succeed in taming Ricky. In a way,
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The film was generally well received by Spanish critics. Lluis Bonet, writing in
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rather than paying the street price, he attacks the dealer to steal the tablets.
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conventional and uninspiring, too similar to Morricone's work for the film
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described it as "fairly banal, schematic and essentially humorless".
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British critics took time to warm to Almodóvar's films and dismissed
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On 19 August 2014, the film was re-released on DVD and Blu-ray by
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differs greatly from Wyler's film and the novel that inspired it.
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in Spanish with English subtitles. It includes the film's
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is not simply a film within the film: just as the girl in
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is also a central plot device in the Hollywood musical
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marked Almodóvar's breaking-up with his longtime star,
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grossed $ 4,087,361 at the North American box office.
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Index


Spanish
Pedro Almodóvar
Agustín Almodóvar
Victoria Abril
Antonio Banderas
Loles León
Francisco Rabal
Julieta Serrano
María Barranco
Rossy de Palma
José Luis Alcaine
José Salcedo
Ennio Morricone
El Deseo S.A.
[ˈa.ta.me]
black
romantic comedy
Pedro Almodóvar
Victoria Abril
Antonio Banderas
Loles León
Francisco Rabal
Julieta Serrano
María Barranco
Rossy de Palma
MPAA
NC-17
X rating
psych hospital

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