Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
¡Átame!
Synopsis
Just released from residential psychiatry, gentle orphan Ricky pursues his pathological obsession: porn actress Marina. Penniless and without a chance to court her, he kidnaps her from the set of crippled director Maximo’s last movie. And that’s just the beginning…
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Awards & Festivals
National Board of Review
1990 | Winner: Top Foreign Films
César Awards
1991 | Nominee: Best Foreign Film
Critics reviews
[Almodóvar’s film reinforces] the dangerous notion that the surest way to a woman’s heart involves absolutely refusing to take no for an answer. What keeps Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! from being irredeemably offensive are Almodóvar’s efforts, however vague and tentative, to undermine his own thesis…
Mike D'Angelo
August 20, 2014
Stockholm Syndrome has rarely been rendered with such sumptuous consideration for the frame, as cinematographer José Luis Alcaine manages degrees of realism and fantasy in equal measure, turning even the confines of Marina’s domestic apartment into a carnivalesque, candy-colored plethora of visual signifiers and connotations.
Clayton Dillard
August 17, 2014
Pedro Almodovar’s poorly made 1990 follow-up to Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown has an offensive premise and a pathetic, almost pleading desire to outrage our sensibilities with it… If someone made an equivalent black comedy about a victim of racism falling in love with his or her oppressor, people would really be outraged, but I guess it’s OK if you’re simply trashing a trashy woman.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
May 01, 1990
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