Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! marked Almodóvar's breaking-up with his longtime star, Carmen Maura, in a rift that took many years to heal. In any case, at the age of 44, Maura was too old to play the protagonist, a role that demanded a younger actress. The film was the beginning of a fruitful collaboration with Victoria Abril, whom Almodóvar had previously considered for the role of Cristal, the prostitute neighbor in What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984), and Candela, the model fleeing a relationship with a terrorist in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988). Abril had a cameo role in Law of Desire, and was already a well-established actress, identified with strong female characters.
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
(1989)Átame! 1
" A love story…with strings attached!"
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| Runtime | 1 hr 41 min |
| Premiere: World | $4 089 145 December 12, 1989 |
| USA | $4 087 361 |
| Other countries | $1784 |
| Premiere: USA | $4 087 361 May 4, 1990 |
| theaters | 82 |
| rollout | 242 days |
| Parental Advisory | Frightening & Intense Scenes, Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking, Profanity, ... |
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An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him.Сast and Crew
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There is no confirmed manga that Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989) is based on: widely available references describe it as an original story/screenplay rather than an adaptation of a specific manga.
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Almadovr always has a great sense of the female soul, it seems to me, and here he showed the ability of a woman to submit to a man. The only thing is that the transition from a victim of violence to love occurs very abruptly, unnaturally. Although Stockholm syndrome often defies logic.
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