Broken Embraces
Director: Pedro Almodóvar, Jirí Chlumský
Genre: Romance Film, Thriller, World cinema, Biography, Family, Romantic drama, Melodrama, Comedy-drama, Drama
Year: 2009
Country: Spain, Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, United States of America
Language: Spanish Language, English Language, Slovak Language, Russian Language
Starring: Rossy de Palma, Penélope Cruz, Blanca Portillo, Tamar Novas, Mariola Fuentes, Lluís Homar, Marta Aledo, Kiti Manver, Rubén Ochandiano, Alejo Sauras, José Luis Gómez, Chema Ruiz, Chus Lampreave, Ángela Molina, Lola Dueñas, Kira Miró, Samuel Spisak, Ondřej Vetchý, Eva Kerekésová, Marián Slovák, Pavel Kríz, Dusan Kapralik, Ivan Romančík, Viera Topinkova, Roman Luknar
Broken Embraces (Spanish: Los abrazos rotos) is a 2009 Spanish romantic thriller film written, produced, and directed by Pedro Almodóvar; a four-way tale of dangerous love, and was shot in the style of a hard-boiled 1950s American film noir, or its descendant, the neo-noir genre. Many themes include noir references such as film posters in sets, angular, high contrast lighting and the characters' struggle with their illicit passions. However, like most Almodovar films, it is filmed in bright color rather than the black-and-white emblematic of noire. The cast includes many Almodóvar regulars such as Ángela Molina, Lola Dueñas and Penélope Cruz (her fourth film with the director). The film's soundtrack includes Cat Power, Uffie, and Can.
"Harry Caine" (Lluís Homar) is a blind writer who shares his life with his agent Judit (Blanca Portillo) and her adult son, Diego (Tamar Novas). Slowly, events in the present begin to bring back memories of the past. Harry hears that millionaire Ernesto Martel (José Luis Gómez) has died; a young filmmaker, Ray X, appears and turns out to be Martel's son, Ernesto, Jr. (Rubén Ochandiano). After Diego is hospitalized for an accidental drug overdose in a
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