101 mins |
Rated
NC-17 (for scene of strong adult sensuality with nudity.)
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Starring Victoria Abril, Loles León, Antonio Banderas
An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him.
After revolutionizing the sounds of pop music at RCA, Ennio Morricone began writing scores for films under the pseudonym Dan Silvio. He was worried his composer colleagues would think less of him for working in film. He began his iconic and decades spanning career scoring Italian comedies and thrillers. He had an ear for pop innovation and was able to make catchy, upbeat backings to move a comedy along as well as atonal, chaotic thrillers. TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! is a comedy-thriller very much like the first films he worked on but it came nearly four decades later in 1989. The Almodóvar film is an excellent example of decades of experience returning to their playful and mysterious roots in creating something to make Ennio Morricone, not Dan Silvio, proud.
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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.
After revolutionizing the sounds of pop music at RCA, Ennio Morricone began writing scores for films under the pseudonym Dan Silvio. He was worried his composer colleagues would think less of him for working in film. He began his iconic and decades spanning career scoring Italian comedies and thrillers. He had an ear for pop innovation and was able to make catchy, upbeat backings to move a comedy along as well as atonal, chaotic thrillers. TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! is a comedy-thriller very much like the first films he worked on but it came nearly four decades later in 1989. The Almodóvar film is an excellent example of decades of experience returning to their playful and mysterious roots in creating something to make Ennio Morricone, not Dan Silvio, proud.
