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A luminous Penélope Cruz stars as an actress who sacrifices everything for true love in BROKEN EMBRACES, Academy Award® -winning filmmaker (2003, Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Talk to Her) Pedro Almodóvar's acclaimed tale of sex, secrets and cinema. When her father becomes gravely ill, beautiful Lena (Cruz) consents to a relationship with her boss Ernesto (José Luis Gómez), a very ...
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A luminous Penélope Cruz stars as an actress who sacrifices everything for true love in BROKEN EMBRACES, Academy Award® -winning filmmaker (2003, Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Talk to Her) Pedro Almodóvar's acclaimed tale of sex, secrets and cinema. When her father becomes gravely ill, beautiful Lena (Cruz) consents to a relationship with her boss Ernesto (José Luis Gómez), a very ...
Nov 20, 2009 · Broken Embraces - Metacritic. 2009. R. Sony Pictures Classics. 2 h 7 m. Summary A man writes, lives and loves in darkness. Fourteen years before, he was in a brutal car crash on the island of Lanzarote. In the accident, he not only lost his sight, he also lost Lena, the love of his life.
Our review: Parents say ( 1 ): Kids say ( 1 ): Sensual and stylish, BROKEN EMBRACES showcases Cruz's many gifts, both physical and professional. Playing an unhappily married actress portraying an Audrey Hepburn -like waif in the movie within this Spanish-language movie, she's able to access a gamut of expressions with a tilt of her head and an ...
May 19, 2009 · Pedro Almodóvar reunites with Penélope Cruz for a sensuous film-within-a-film that is a moviegoer's delight. Peter Bradshaw at the Cannes film festival. Tue 19 May 2009 10.31 EDT. P edro ...
Pedro Almodovar's latest, "Broken Embraces," is like a high-class telenovela for the art-house crowd. Its love triangle - involving a film director (Lluis Homar), his gorgeous lead actress (Penelope Cruz) and her elderly, abusive boyfriend (Jose Luis Gomez) who's financing the film on which they're working - spans the period from 1994 to 2008.
Los abrazos rotos. 2009. Directed by Pedro Almodovar. This is Pedro Almodovar at his best with regard to story telling and mixing genres but he relies on the one genre (NOIR) that mixes well with romance, drama, and thriller genres. Truffaut and De Palma are influences I think of when I watch Broken Embraces.
