Talk to Her opens with choreographer Pina Bausch’s quietly stirring dance theater piece Café Muller. Two female dancers (including the choreographer herself), seemingly in their sleep, move unpredictably in a dance floor filled with random chairs and tables. A male dancer feverishly moves each obstacle along their paths to keep the women from getting hurt. A man sobs in the audience. This affecting opening sets the stage for a film about two men in love with two women in comas. One man commits a crime and both are left in despair in a story that is touching, sympathetic, and unnerving. Almodóvar won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.