Almodóvar won a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for his complex tale of love and obsession: Marco is a writer in love with a female bullfighter Lydia, and Benigno is a lonely nurse who tends Alicia, a comatose ballet dancer.
When Lydia is left comatose after a bullfighting accident, she is hospitalized close to Alicia; Benigno befriends Mario and shows him how he can help Lydia by talking to her and keeping her skin moisturized.
Benigno admits to stalking Alicia before her traffic accident and now sees films and shows so he can tell her about them afterward.
Marco argues with Benigno when he says he wants to marry Alicia, but everything changes when it is discovered that comatose Alicia is pregnant and Benigno is arrested.
Shelf or charity shop? Almodóvar followed up ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER with a similarly deeply moving look at male friendship - a definite keeper if only for the exquisite lead performance of Javier Cámara as lonely Benigno as well as Dario Grandinetti, Rosario Flores as Lydia and Leonor Watling as Alicia...
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