OBSESSIONS.(two motion pictures)(Movie Review)

From 1988, Pauline Kael reviews "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown"

In a shiny Madrid clinic, Benigno (Javier Camara), a male nurse who is one of the two heroes of Pedro Almodovar's "Talk to Her," washes the body of a patient named Alicia (Leonor Watling). Slowly, patiently, he wraps her in layers of bedclothes, lacing her up like a deluxe package. A beautiful young ballet dancer who was struck by a car, Alicia has been in a coma for four years, and Benigno talks to her as he works, figuring she needs the company. Before he became a nurse, he took care of his mother the same way. "You have to pay attention to women," he says. A shy, slightly chubby young ...