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	Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (ATAME!) starring Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas, Loles León, Julieta Serrano, María Barranco directed by Pedro Almodóvar
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Product Details Audience Rating X (Mature Audiences Only) EAN 9786301878388 Format Color, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN 6301878388 Manufacturer Sony Pictures Number Of Items 1 Release Date February 21, 1995 Running Time 102 minutes Theatrical Release Date 1989 UPC 043396909038 Availability Usually ships in 1-2 business days Product Description Perhaps only Pedro Almodóvar could come up with a story about a mental patient who stalks and kidnaps an ex-porn star--and turn it into a tender love story. But that's exactly what happens in Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, a lively installment from the Spanish director's wacky middle period (after the scruffy early films, and before his mature melodramas). Two of Almodóvar's sexiest stars, Antonio Banderas and Victoria Abril, play the leads: a cracked young man with dreams of bourgeois domesticity, and an actress who used to specialize in porno and heroin. Despite that fact that he binds her limbs with cord when he leaves the house, he always returns with a cheerful 'I'm home!' For all Almodóvar's outrageousness, there's a touch of classical Hollywood in his construction. And while this movie is not for the politically correct, it does play by its own warped rules. --Robert Horton This Pedro Almodóvar's movie gets off to a fast start, like a windup toy, but it runs out of momentum early, and Almodóvar can't figure out how to start it up again. The story, about a released mental patient (Antonio Banderas) who follows a sexy actress (Victoria Abril) and then takes her prisoner, seems to tie the director's wild imagination down, and his efforts to keep his (and the audience's) blood circulating betray some desperation. Neither the kidnapper's romantic obsession nor his captive's eventual love for him is especially convincing. And we don't fully enjoy the perverse humor of the situation, either: we've seen the victim subdued by a hard slap, and that image is too strong to forget. The limpness of 'Tie Me Up!' suggests that Almodóvar is either a confused director or a tired one-probably a bit of both. It's as if he had made the movie solely to satisfy the public's demand for a new Almodóvar film. Also with Francisco Rabal, Loles Leon, and Lola Cardona. Screenplay by Almodóvar. In Spanish. -Terrence Rafferty Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker Customers who bought this item also bought Viva Pedro - The Almodovar Collection (Talk to Her/ Bad Education/ All about My Mother/ Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown/ Live Flesh/ Flower of My Secret / Matador / Law of Desire) Volver Kika Talons Aiguilles [Region 2] What Have I Done to Deserve This? Customer Reviews for: Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (ATAME!) Rating - Misogynistic Garbage Someone should have informed the makers of this movie that women do NOT enjoy being beaten unconscious, held prisoner, victimized. The ridiculous plot glorifies this disgusting behavior and it is sickening. Lame attempts at humor fail, rampant drug use is also portrayed and glorified. Is the audience actually to believe the woman would fall in love with her attacker and live happily ever after? The only thing they got right was rating it NC-17. NO ... Read More Rating - bizarre comedy that recommends an unorthodox way to fall in love This is the story of a mental patient who happens to be a hunk (a very young Banderas), who attempts to use an original method to get a b-film star to fall for him: abducting and then tieing her up. It isn't all that funny if you ask me, but it is well acted and interesting in spots. Really a strange drama. Almodar's later dramas are infinitely superior. Rating - Absolute gem! This is an amzing movie, one of the best Almodovar's ever! And it is also worth seeing an Antonio Banderas from his 'pre-Hollywood' age, much, much better than now! Rating - Unsophisticated-- primitive desperation as romance for clods I found nothing whatsoever sympathetic about Ricky. His pathetic view of romance is the same as the highschool kids that jump off a cliff together. Her view of the romance was pity for that pathetic. Disturbed individuals will see this validating their own twisted view of romance, not a behaviour to encourage. The story is essentially "The Collector" (1965) with a "they all live happily ever after" ending. Modern cave-man still drags his mate ... Read More see more reviews See all movies starring Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas, Loles León, Julieta Serrano, María Barranco See all movies directed by Pedro Almodóvar

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