Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989)
- Original title
- ¡Átame!
- Directed by
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Genre
- drama film, crime film, romance film, black comedy film, romantic comedy film
- Country
- Spain
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Rated
- NC-17
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 704 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man just released from a psychiatric hospital kidnaps an actress he met before. He believes they are destined to be together and tries to make her fall in love with him.
edgydarkly comicintenseunsettlingromanticoffbeatfast-pacedprovocative
What happens
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Spanish: ¡Átame!, pronounced [ˈa.ta.me], "Tie Me Up!") is a 1989 Spanish black romantic comedy film co-written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Victoria Abril and Antonio Banderas alongside Loles León, Francisco Rabal, Julieta Serrano, María Barranco, and Rossy de Palma. The plot follows a recently released psychiatric patient who kidnaps an actress in order to make her fall in love with him. He believes his destiny is to marry her and father her children. The film was highly successful with both critics and audiences in Spain. Its United States release was entangled in controversy, instrumental in the implementation by the MPAA of a new rating category, NC-17, for films of an explicit nature that were previously categorized as pornographic due to the X rating. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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