Penélope Cruz
Lena
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Jan 15, 2010 · Broken Embraces: Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. With Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo, José Luis Gómez. Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back.
- (42K)
- Drama, Romance, Thriller
- Pedro Almodóvar
- 2010-01-15
Broken Embraces (Spanish: Los abrazos rotos) is a 2009 Spanish film written, produced, and directed by Pedro Almodóvar.Led by an ensemble cast consisting of many Almodóvar regulars, it stars Lluís Homar as a blind Madrilenian screenwriter who recalls his tragic love for Lena, played by Penélope Cruz, the deceased lead actress in his last directional feature Girls and Suitcases, who was ...
- $18 million
- Alberto Iglesias
- 18 March 2009 (Spain)
Nov 20, 2009 · Broken Embraces. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. The death of Ernesto Martel (José Luis Gómez) sets off a chain of events that forces one man to come to terms with his past. Before he went blind ...
- (1.6K)
- Pedro Almodóvar
- R
- Penélope Cruz
Dec 16, 2009 · Pedro Almodovar loves the movies with lust and abandon and the skill of an experienced lover. "Broken Embraces" is a voluptuary of a film, drunk on primary colors, caressing Penelope Cruz, using the devices of a Hitchcock to distract us with surfaces while the sinister uncoils beneath. As it ravished me, I longed for a freeze frame to allow me ...
Nov 20, 2009 · Aficionados will recognize “Girls and Suitcases,” bits of which turn up in “Broken Embraces,” most powerfully at the end, as a replica of “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown ...
- Pedro Almodóvar
- A.O. Scott
- 127 min
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"Broken Embraces" is a four-way tale of amour-fou, shot in the style of '50s American film noir at its most hard-boiled, and will mix references to works like Nicholas Ray's "In a Lonely Place" and Vincente Minnelli's "The Bad and the Beautiful," with signature Almodóvar themes such as Fate, the mystery of creation, guilt, unscrupulous power ...
May 19, 2009 · A score by longtime collaborator Alberto Iglesias evokes the many movies the director embraces in “Broken Embraces.”. Festival de Cannes — Competition. No rating, 129 minutes. While making a ...
