Broken Embraces

A FILM BY Pedro Almodóvar

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The story is twisted and complex, yet it emerges as sleek and unfussy. The characters' actions are grandly melodramatic, but the movie is close and intimate."" ""

- Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic

Pedro Almodóvar?s Broken Embraces is a lush, deeply romantic noir dense with nods to films past, yet it plays as if it sprung fully formed from the director?s unconscious."" ""

- David Edelstein, New York Magazine

A vibrant, mature love letter to the making of movies, the meaning of movies, and the dark-eyed muse Penélope Cruz."" ""

- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

Captivant! Penélope Cruz est lumineuse!

- Normand Provencher, Le Soleil

Almodóvar affiche une maîtrise remarquable!

- Marc-André Lussier, La Presse

Une magnifique lettre d'amour au cinéma!

- Manon Dumais, Voir

Intense et attrayant. Les fans seront comblés!

- Natalia Wysocka, ICI

Synopsis

Fourteen years ago, a writer lost his sight and his lover in a car accident, and is now reduced to his pseudonym, Harry Caine. He has completely erased his original identity. Harry lives thanks to the scripts he writes and to the help of her former and always faithful production manager, Judit Garcia, as well as of her son, Diego, who acts as his secretary, typist and guide. But, one night, Diego has an accident and Harry must look after him. In the long night of sitting up with the boy, he tells him of his past as if it was a story. A story portrayed by a photo of a couple of lovers embracing. A photo torn to pieces, resulting in broken embraces.