Almodovar uses the characters' unlikely predicaments to show how we define ourselves by narration, but his story is so overdetermined that ultimately the two men seem as constrained as their brain-dead sweethearts.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
11 Jan 2008
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It's Almodovar's most mature and mysterious movie.
– David Ansen,
Newsweek,
1 Nov 2007
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The film combines sensuality, spirituality and sheer joy in storytelling in marvellously harmonious proportions.