#722: ALMODÓVAR, Pedro: Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990)
ALMODÓVAR, Pedro (Spain)
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! [1990]
Spine #722
Blu-ray
Blu-ray
Pedro Almodóvar's colorful and controversial tribute to the pleasures and perils of Stockholm syndrome, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! is a rambunctious dark comedy starring Antonio Banderas as an unbalanced but alluring ex-mental-patient and Victoria Abril as the B-movie and former porn star he takes prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him. A highly unconventional romance that came on the spike heels of Almodóvar's international sensation Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, this is a splashy, sexy central work in the career of one of the world's most beloved and provocative auteurs, radiantly shot by the director's great cinematographer, José Luis Alcaine.
102 minutes
Color
Color
5.1 Surround
in Spanish
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2014
Director/Writer
Pedro Almodóvar was 41 when he wrote and directed Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Other Almodóvar films in the Collection:
#855: Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown (1988)
#1012: All About My Mother (1999)
The Film
Other Almodóvar films in the Collection:
#855: Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown (1988)
#1012: All About My Mother (1999)
The Film
Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Twenty-eight page booklet featuring a 1990 piece about the film by Almodóvar, a conversation between critic Kent Jones and filmmaker Wes Anderson, and an interview with Almodóvar from 1989.
Commentary
None.
Documentary
On the making of the film, featuring interviews with Almodóvar, Agustin Almodóvar, actors Banderas, Abril, León, and de Palma; production manager Esther Garcia and DP José Luis Alcaine.
Interview
With Almodóvar collaborator and Sony Pictures Classics copresident Michael Barker.
Conversation
From 2003 between Almodóvar and Banderas.
Footage
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twenty-eight page booklet featuring a 1990 piece about the film by Almodóvar, a conversation between critic Kent Jones and filmmaker Wes Anderson, and an interview with Almodóvar from 1989.
Commentary
None.
Documentary
On the making of the film, featuring interviews with Almodóvar, Agustin Almodóvar, actors Banderas, Abril, León, and de Palma; production manager Esther Garcia and DP José Luis Alcaine.
Interview
With Almodóvar collaborator and Sony Pictures Classics copresident Michael Barker.
Conversation
From 2003 between Almodóvar and Banderas.
Footage
From the film’s 1990 premiere party in Madrid.
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