Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990)
(¡Atame!)
Country: SP
Technical: col 102m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas
Synopsis:
An emotionally unstable orphan who has spent most of his life in a mental institution is released and almost immediately seeks out an actress with whom he had a one-night stand some time previously. She does not respond as he hoped and so he follows her to her home having stolen a copy of her key from her sister. There he resolves to keep her prisoner until she should fall for his charms again, but he hasn't counted on her being a strung-out drug addict!
Review:
Containing many of the Almodóvar hallmarks from his earlier films - drug abuse, a gaudy colour scheme and risqué content (here the thesis that a woman who is beaten and bound to her bed will get all hot for her captor the minute he returns home from a beating) - this now seems very much as though the director was trying to combine his outré comedies with his more serious films of amour fou, such as Matador and La Ley del Deseo. It doesn't really work, though it did introduce the fiery Abril to an international audience.
(¡Atame!)
Country: SP
Technical: col 102m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas
Synopsis:
An emotionally unstable orphan who has spent most of his life in a mental institution is released and almost immediately seeks out an actress with whom he had a one-night stand some time previously. She does not respond as he hoped and so he follows her to her home having stolen a copy of her key from her sister. There he resolves to keep her prisoner until she should fall for his charms again, but he hasn't counted on her being a strung-out drug addict!
Review:
Containing many of the Almodóvar hallmarks from his earlier films - drug abuse, a gaudy colour scheme and risqué content (here the thesis that a woman who is beaten and bound to her bed will get all hot for her captor the minute he returns home from a beating) - this now seems very much as though the director was trying to combine his outré comedies with his more serious films of amour fou, such as Matador and La Ley del Deseo. It doesn't really work, though it did introduce the fiery Abril to an international audience.
(¡Atame!)
Country: SP
Technical: col 102m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas
Synopsis:
An emotionally unstable orphan who has spent most of his life in a mental institution is released and almost immediately seeks out an actress with whom he had a one-night stand some time previously. She does not respond as he hoped and so he follows her to her home having stolen a copy of her key from her sister. There he resolves to keep her prisoner until she should fall for his charms again, but he hasn't counted on her being a strung-out drug addict!
Review:
Containing many of the Almodóvar hallmarks from his earlier films - drug abuse, a gaudy colour scheme and risqué content (here the thesis that a woman who is beaten and bound to her bed will get all hot for her captor the minute he returns home from a beating) - this now seems very much as though the director was trying to combine his outré comedies with his more serious films of amour fou, such as Matador and La Ley del Deseo. It doesn't really work, though it did introduce the fiery Abril to an international audience.