Átame (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!)

[pro-bassoonist]

Pedro Almodovar's ¡Átame! a.k.a Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990) is set to be released in Spain on December 16th. Preliminary info indicates lack of English subtitles.

Rita Kempley:

The cords that tie us one to another -- silken, insidious, invisible -- become literal ropy metaphors in Pedro Almodovar's fleshy love story "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" Though initially rated X (it was released without a rating) and hotly debated, it's a tale not of kinky sex, but of a sweeter human bondage, of loose ends tied into lover's knots.

If "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" was a satire of the faithless Lothario, "Tie Me Up!" is its darkly comic, slightly spooky antithesis, the story of an all-too-devoted lover. But don't expect "Moonstruck." This is stronger stuff, a combination of "The Collector" and a lurid technicolor romance. Or as a line of dialogue informs us, "Horror or love story, it's hard to tell them apart."

Victoria Abril, an Almodovar heroine from the tip of her sharp tongue to her painted toes, is Marina, a former junkie and porn star struggling for equilibrium. She seems just to be coming into her own as a relatively respectable B-movie queen when she runs up against Ricky (Antonio Banderas), a 23-year-old handyman just released from a mental hospital.

With his Bates Motel burr, gaunt good looks and tortured eyes, Ricky is obviously not your ordinary stage door Johnny. Should there be any doubt, a "Psychoesque" refrain announces him like an insistent doorbell on a stormy night in Transylvania. During one of his many escapes from the hospital, he spent a night with Marina and has since determined that he wants to marry her and raise a big family. When Marina ignores his suit, he decides to kidnap her, convinced she'll grow to love him.

"I'll never love you, ever," says Marina, understandably enraged at being handcuffed, gagged and lashed to the bed. "We'll see," says Ricky, who would do anything to win her heart. When valentines, compliments and headstands don't work, he opts for stronger methods. Some people use guilt and bribes, but Ricky is incapable of subtleties, so he is astonished at what ultimately wins Marina's affections -- that old standby, neediness. Deep down inside, Marina is a nurse.

Upon finally discovering the heroine's plight, her sister Lola (Loles Leon) is astonished to learn that Marina really no longer wants to be rescued. "How can you love someone who ties you up?" she asks. "That's not normal." Obviously Almodovar believes that attachment is the norm, that love is a sticky lariat. A writer-director driven by his passion, Almodovar allows his movies to moan and sweat and writhe. Sex looks like sex, not pornographic but messy and warm. The curtains do not billow, the sheets burn.

X marks the G-spot perhaps, for this is an orgiastic comedy of terrors and errors. More likely X denies the disquieting truths that only art can speak, with brazen guile in this instance. Viewed superficially, "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" is a NOW nightmare, but suffice to say it's the women, calm and sure, who take the reins.

Pro-B

[wallendo]

Any update on this? Region coding?

although the lack of subtitles might hurt.

[cuau_cg]

https://forum.blu-ray.com/spanish/12...ml#post3245342

neto told us in the "talk to her" thread that picture quality is great!
audio is lossy and doesn't have subtitles.
Also is region free!!
I'm gonna order mines soon!!

[neto]

Originally Posted by cuau_cg

https://forum.blu-ray.com/spanish/12...ml#post3245342

neto told us in the "talk to her" thread that picture quality is great!
audio is lossy and doesn't have subtitles.
Also is region free!!
I'm gonna order mines soon!!

Yeah the picture quality in all releases is OUTSTANDING (specially the former ones "mujeres", "kika", "atame).
They are REGION FREE
However, NO lossy track (sorry Cuau for the misunderstanding, all of them are either Dolby Digital 2.0 or Dolby Digital 5.1).
And NO subtitles (but hey, if Peter Coyote and Gianni Versace could understand their part in Kika.... )

[cuau_cg]

Originally Posted by neto

However, NO lossy track (sorry Cuau for the misunderstanding, all of them are either Dolby Digital 2.0 or Dolby Digital 5.1).

Jajaja te volviste a equivocar, quieres decir:
NO lossless track. They include only lossy tracks.

Dónde preordenaste Todo sobre mi madre?? En fnac aún no aparece!! Ya les mande correo, les escribí en los comentarios y no la agregan. Quiero pedirlas ya.

[neto]

Originally Posted by cuau_cg

Jajaja te volviste a equivocar, quieres decir:
NO lossless track. They include only lossy tracks.

Dónde preordenaste Todo sobre mi madre?? En fnac aún no aparece!! Ya les mande correo, les escribí en los comentarios y no la agregan. Quiero pedirlas ya.

Ah sí que pendejo
Lossy- comprimido
Lossless- sin compresión

jajajaa

Puedes pedirlas en dvdgo.com

[cuau_cg]

Jajaja si me di cuenta, porque en el post anterior también pusiste lo mismo, te confundiste pensando que lossy era lossless.
En cuanto a fnac, es que los tienen en 12 euros cada uno. Por eso quiero esperarme, es mucho ahorro comparado con los 19 que cuesta. 7 euros de ahorro en cada película :P Prefiero esperar jeje.
Ya te contaré cuando haga el pedido, en cuanto la pongan en preventa (creo que la pondrán hasta el 19 de mayo que salga a la venta :P los muy bestias no se enteran que va a salir ese dia).