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. One night when he's asked about his life before the accident, the man can't refuse the chance to tell his story.
"Pedro Almodóvar's new opus is a sleek, stylish, essence-of-Almodóvar homage to movies, moviemaking, love, and Penélope Cruz." (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly)
"Like [Almodóvar's] ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER, TALK TO HER, BAD EDUCATION and VOLVER -- not a bad decade’s work, by the way -- BROKEN EMBRACES leaves the viewer in a contradictory state, a mixture of devastation and euphoria, amusement and dismay that deserves its own clinical designation. Call it Almodóvaria, a syndrome from which some of us are more than happy to suffer." (A.O. Scott, The New York Times)
2009 Cannes Film Festival: Palm d'Or Nominee
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Directed By
Pedro Almodóvar
Starring
Penélope Cruz
Lluís Homar
Blanca Portillo
José Luis Gómez
Rubén Ochandiano
Tamar Novas
Ángela Molina
Running Time
127 minutes
MPAA Rating
R
Distributor
Sony Pictures Classics
Country of Origin
Spain
Language
Spanish with English subtitles
Release Year
2009 |