I discovered that I have a director crush.
A director crush is a movie director that you respect and admire, but are not physically attracted to them because majority of the time they are WAAYYYYY too old for you, but you have a crush on their awesomeness and their ability to portray a story in magnificent lights that have never been attempted.
My director crush is Pedro Almodovar.
He's just got so much ingenuity I can't even describe how talented his neurons are.
His movie that I watched is called "Hable con Ella."
In case you can't tell, this movie is done in Spanish. And yes, I understand Spanish so it was a completely enjoyable film.
ACTING
I had never heard of majority of the cast before, but I looked up their credentials.
And they're all pretty bad ass.
So they get 4 Oscars for just being cool.
Total Oscars: 4
SET/MAKEUP
The setting was set in modern day Spain, so everything was pretty much normal looking. Although one critique I have is that Marco should not have been wearing jeans. Maybe he wasn't, maybe he was, and yeah he's a journalist, but come on. I've been to Spain and NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD OF JEANS OR CASUAL WEAR.
Whatever.
He just looked too laid back.
Although I WILL give props for the matador costume for Lydia because it was pretty damn cool.
Total Oscars: 3.5
STORY LINE
Marco is a journalist that is doing a piece on a matador (bull fighter), named Lydia. Things were going well for them until she gets spooked at something in her house and they end up roadtripping together and becoming a couple. Well one day, Lydia goes into a match and gets into a pretty bad accident, making her go into a coma. She gets transferred to a special care hospital where Benigno works at. Benigno is a middle aged man who happens to be in love with one of the patients, Alicia. Marco and Benigno become best friends but things take a sudden turn when Benigno becomes imprisoned. Marco then has to piece together his friend's life and his love, Alicia.
It's ridiculously complicated, but completely genius.
Total Oscars: 5
OSCAR SUM: 13.5
