Almodovar uses the characters' unlikely predicaments to show how we define ourselves by narration, but his story is so overdetermined that ultimately the two men seem as constrained as their brain-dead sweethearts.
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Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
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It's Almodovar's most mature and mysterious movie.
The film combines sensuality, spirituality and sheer joy in storytelling in marvellously harmonious proportions.
It's a brave movie and a mature undertaking.
Good, but not classic Almodovar.
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