Hable Con Ella

[Liora Putcha]

Whenyou are talking to a friend you say Habla con ella, but when you talk to lets say to your daddy or boss then you must be polite and use the Hable because you reffer to your daddy like Ud and not like TU

In Hable con ella we see a male swimmer crossing a pristine blue pool at night. Almodvar takes his time filming every inch of his body, his skin glistening as he stands up and the camera reveals his smiling face dripping water. Acoustic guitar notes. We are in a country house at a party. The guests are sitting and standing in a semicircle, transfixed on the singer, a thin middle-aged man who looks equal parts Buster Keaton and Fernando Pessoa. It is, we realise, Caetano Veloso, the bossa nova virtuoso and perhaps the most celebrated Brazilian folk singer of all time.

The camera pans to reveal the guests. Cinematic past and present collide. In a surprising move, very unlike him, Almodvar gives us a glimpse of the protagonists of his previous film, Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother, 1999). We see Manuela (Cecilia Roth), a mother who in the film loses her teenage son, and Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes), a stage actress who befriends her. It is as if Almodvar is telling us, through song and the stuff that movies are made of, that everything is always alright at the end. Almodvar, always the master of melodrama.

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The first time I ever left the country, my mother, sister, and I went to Guatemala for 2 weeks, and took Spanish classes from a local Guatemalan. I was in a beautiful place, with nice people, and a beautiful language - I was obsessed. This was the first time I found myself staying up late at night in our hacienda, and making Spanish verb and vocabulary flashcards. (I know, total nerd)

One night, in Antigua, we went to the local theatre - someone's living room with a 1990's box tv and VCR set up in front of a bunch of mis-matched couches and car seats. The "concession stand" was a cooler with bottles of local beer.

The movie de la noche was Hable con ella, one of the most bizarre movies I had ever seen. The characters involve a ballerina and female bull fighter who fall into comas, and the story of the 2 men who take care of them while they recover. I won't ruin it, but the end was truly bizarre, making it one of the most memorable movies I have ever seen.

The Indicative Present of hablar is used to talk about situations, events or thoughts that are happening now or in the near future. It is also used to talk about facts and truths. For example, "hablo con mi marido", meaning "I speak to my husband".

The Indicative Imperfect of hablar is used to describe regular and repeated actions that happened in the past and descriptions of things you used to do. For example, "hablaba con mi marido", meaning "I used to speak to my husband".

The Indicative Present Continuous of hablar is used to talk about something that is happening continuously or right now. For example, "estoy hablando con mi marido", meaning "I am speaking to my husband".

The Indicative Informal Future of hablar is used to talk about something that will happen in the future, especially in the near future. For example, "voy a hablar con mi marido", meaning "I am going to speak to my husband".

The Indicative Conditional of hablar is used to talk about something that may happen in the future, hypothesis and probabilities. For example, "hablara con mi marido", meaning "I would speak to my husband".

The Indicative Present Perfect of hablar is used to describe actions that started recently (in the past) and are still happening now or things that have been done recently. For example, "he hablado con mi marido", meaning "I have spoken to my husband".

The Indicative Future Perfect of hablar is used to talk about something that will have happened in the future after something else has already happened. For example, "habr hablado con mi marido", meaning "I will have spoken to my husband".

The Subjunctive Present is used to talk about situations of uncertainty, or emotions such as wishes, desires and hopes. It differs from the indicative mood due to the uncertainty of the events which are being spoken about. For example, "hable", meaning "I speak".

The Subjunctive Imperfect is used to speak about unlikely or uncertain events in the past or to cast an opinion (emotional) about something that happened in the past. For example, "hablara", meaning "I spoke".

The Subjunctive Present Perfect is used to describe past actions or events that are still connected to the present day and to speak about an action that will have happened by a certain time in the future. For example, "haya hablado", meaning "I have spoken".

The Subjunctive Past Perfect is used to speak about hypothetical situations, and actions/events that occurred before other actions/events in the past. For example, "hubiera hablado", meaning "I had spoken".

The Subjunctive Future Perfect is used to speak about something that will have happened if a hypothetical situations occurs in the future. For example, "hubiere hablado", meaning "I will have spoken".

Hable Con Ella es un melodrama psicolgico espaol de 2002, escrito y dirigido por Pedro Almodvar y producido por Agustn Almodvar y Michel Ruben. Protagonizado por Javier Cmara, Leonor Watling, Daro Grandinetti, Rosario Flores y Geraldine Chaplin. La pelcula trata sobre dos hombres que construyen una amistad poco convencional mientras cuidan a dos mujeres que estn en coma.

La pelcula fue un xito comercial y fue inmensamente aclamada por la crtica, que destac la direccin, las actuaciones y especialmente el guion. La pelcula gan el BAFTA y Globo de Oro a la Mejor Pelcula Extranjera y el Oscar al Mejor Guion Original (siendo la primera y, hasta la fecha, nica pelcula espaola en lograr esta hazaa) y marcando una de las nicas veces que una pelcula de habla no inglesa ha encabezado la categora. Desde entonces, est considerada una de las mejores pelculas espaolas de la historia, una de las mejores pelculas de 2002, de los 2000, una de las grandes pelculas del siglo XXI y el magnus opus de Pedro Almodvar.

Benigno, un enfermero, y Marco, un escritor maduro, coinciden en un espectculo de Pina Bausch, Caf Mller. En el escenario, dos mujeres con los ojos cerrados y los brazos extendidos se mueven al comps de La reina de las hadas, de Henry Purcell. La emocin de Marco es tal que rompe a llorar. Meses ms tarde, los dos hombres vuelven a encontrarse en la clnica privada El Bosque, donde Benigno trabaja. Lydia, la novia de Marco, torera de profesin, est en coma despus de sufrir una cogida de un toro, mientras que Alicia, una joven bailarina, ha sufrido un accidente automovilstico debido al cual qued en coma, teniendo a Benigno como su enfermero.

El recibimiento general del filme fue bueno, sobre todo en el extranjero, donde cosech importantes premios como el Oscar al mejor guion original y una nominacin a mejor director, el Globo de Oro al mejor film extranjero y dos premios BAFTA, al mejor guion original y al mejor film extranjero. Contrariamente, en Espaa, donde lleg a recaudar 6.208.691,42 euros, recibi menos nominaciones, ya que la Academia Espaola no la seleccion para representarla en los scar en favor de Los lunes al sol, filme que finalmente ganara los Premios Goya a mejor pelcula y direccin, entre otros. Hable con ella gan el premio a la Mejor Msica Original en esa ceremonia.A escala mundial fue bien recibida por la crtica. A continuacin se destacan algunas significativas crticas al filme de Almodvar recogidas de su pgina oficial:

You're a journalist who writes for a publication in Madrid and whotravels overseas to exotic locations writing travel brochures... and who crieseasily in the theatre or when listening to music. Your excuse is that you'retrying to get over a woman who was freaked out by a snake in Africa when youwere having a romantic sleepover by an oasis. Sound promising? There's more:you replace her with an androgynous female bullfighter called Lydia who getsgored and ends up in a coma. Tabloid? Perhaps... but certainly not cheap, asthere's lots of sub-text and mytho-symbolism in your unhappy situation. Yourname? Marco.

Or maybe not. Maybe it's Benigno, another lonely guy who lives inan apartment just across the street from a dance studio... and who falls inlove with one of the dancers, a girl by the name of Alicia whose old man is apsychiatrist. This is interesting as your behavior is a bit suspect, definitelyobsessive. You break into her apartment, steal one of her hair clips... shediscovers your unauthorized entry as she steps out of the shower but you assureher you're harmless. You make an appointment with her father for somecounselling, although this is merely a ruse to get closer to Alicia. Alas, onerainy day she gets hit by a car and ends up in a coma... end of story? No. Fateis the hunter. You just happen to be a male nurse who works in a hospital thathandles just such cases. The father, who believes you're a homosexual, hiresyou to look after her. A case-history gem? Perhaps... but certainly not cheap,as there's lots of sub-text and mytho-symbolism in your (unhappy) situation.

As the past is always trying to catch up to the present, more thanhalf the film elapses before the action claims the future. Think of it as abreaking newscast story. In the casts, followups uncover information from thepast. It's a montage narrative typical of the media noise of our era, althoughthe artistic presentation makes it appear to be something else. It's anabsolutely natural form of narrative; after all, when we remember the past, wedon't necessarily recall events in linear Time.

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