1989 · comedy · drama · romance
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar1h 42m1989
After being released from a mental hospital, a troubled young man tracks down an actress he once had sex with and forces her into captivity, determined to make her part of his life.
Our read: Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- brisk
- intimate
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