Description

Pedro Almodóvar’s colorful and controversial tribute to the pleasures and perils of Stockholm syndrome, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! is a rambunctious dark comedy starring Antonio Banderas as an unbalanced but alluring ex-mental-patient and Victoria Abril as the B-movie and former porn star he takes prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him. A highly unconventional romance that came on the spike heels of Almodo´var’s international sensation Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, this is a splashy, sexy central work in the career of one of the world’s most beloved and provocative auteurs, radiantly shot by the director’s great cinematographer, Jose´ Luis Alcaine.

Special Features

• New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Pedro Almodo´var and executive producer Agusti´n Almodo´var, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodo´var; Agusti´n Almodo´var; actors Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Loles Leo´n, and Rossy de Palma; production manager Esther Garci´a; and cinematographer Jose´ Luis Alcaine
• New interview with Almodo´var collaborator and Sony Pictures Classics copresident Michael Barker
• Conversation from 2003 between Pedro Almodo´var and Banderas
• Footage from the film’s 1990 premiere party in Madrid
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring a 1990 piece about the film by Pedro Almodo´var, a conversation between critic Kent Jones and filmmaker Wes Anderson, and
• an interview with Almodo´var from 1989