Box office
The film grossed $9,285,469 in the United States and $41,716,081 internationally for a worldwide total of $51,001,550.[1]
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 91% based on reviews from 137 critics, and an average rating of 8.1/10. The website's consensus states: "Another masterful, compassionate work from Pedro Almodóvar".[7] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 86 out of 100, based on reviews from 34 critics.[8]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it four out of four, and wrote: "Combines improbable melodrama (gored bullfighters, comatose ballerinas) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensational denouements, and yet at the end, we are undeniably touched."[9] A.O. Scott of the New York Times named Talk to Her "The best film of the year".[10]
Accolades
Talk to Her was not submitted as Spain's pick for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Mondays in the Sun was selected instead.[11]
- Wins
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2002 Academy Awards:
- Best Original Screenplay - Pedro Almodóvar
- Argentine Film Critics Association ("Silver Condor"): Best Foreign Film
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2003 BAFTA Awards:
- Best Film Not in the English Language
- Best Original Screenplay - Pedro Almodóvar
- 2003 Bangkok International Film Festival ("Golden Kinnaree Award"): Best Film, Best Director - Pedro Almodóvar
- Bodil Awards: Best Non-American Film
- Bogey Awards: Bogey Award
- Cinema Brazil Grand Prize: Best Foreign Language Film
- Cinema Writers Circle Awards (Spain): Best Original Score - Alberto Iglesias
- Czech Lions: Best Foreign Language Film
- 2003 César Awards: Best European Union Film
- European Film Awards: Best Film, Best Director (Pedro Almodóvar), Best Screenwriter - Pedro Almodóvar
- French Syndicate of Cinema Critics: Best Foreign Film
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2003 Golden Globe Awards:
- Best Foreign Language Film
- Goya Awards (Spain): Best Original Score - Alberto Iglesias
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Director - Pedro Almodóvar
- Mexican Cinema Journalists ("Silver Goddess"): Best Foreign Film
- National Board of Review: Best Foreign Language Film
- Russian Guild of Film Critics ("Golden Aries"): Best Foreign Film
- Satellite Awards: Best Motion Picture: Foreign Language, Best Original Screenplay - Pedro Almodóvar
- Sofia International Film Festival: Audience Award – Best Film
- Spanish Actors Union: Performance in a Minor Role: Female - Mariola Fuentes
- TIME Magazine: Best Film
- Uruguayan Film Critics Association: Best Film (tie)
- Vancouver Film Critics Circle: Best Foreign Film
- Nominations
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2002 Academy Awards:
- Best Director - Pedro Almodóvar
- British Independent Film Awards: Best Foreign Film – Foreign Language
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards: Best Foreign Language Film
- Chicago Film Critics Association: Best Foreign Language Film
- David di Donatello Awards: Best Foreign Film
- European Film Awards: Best Actor (Javier Cámara), Best Cinematographer - Javier Aguirresarobe
- Satellite Awards: Best Director - Pedro Almodóvar
Legacy
In 2005, Time magazine film critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel included Talk to Her in their list of the All-TIME 100 Greatest Movies.[12] Paul Schrader placed the film at #46 on his canon of the 60 greatest films.[13] Sight & Sound magazine included the film in its list of "30 great films of the 2000s".[14] In a 2016 BBC poll, critics voted the film the 28th greatest since 2000.[15]
