Los abrazos rotos (Broken Embraces). 2009. Written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar

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Los abrazos rotos (Broken Embraces). 2009. Spain. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Courtesy Sony Pictures Classics

Los abrazos rotos (Broken Embraces). 2009. Spain. Written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. With Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo, José Luis Gómez, Rubén Ochandiano. DCP. In Spanish; English subtitles. 127 min.

The news of the death of powerful Madrilenian businessman Ernesto Martel (José Luis Gómez) forces Harry Caine (Lluís Homar), a blind man who was once a film writer/director, to confront his tragic past. Magdalena (Penélope Cruz) was the star of Caine’s last feature, Girls and Suitcases, with a plot similar to Almodóvar’s 1998 film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Although she was Martel’s much-younger girlfriend at the time, the director and actress fell ferociously in love during filming. The film-within-a-film, combining multiple genres, brings together love, obsession, voyeurism, and melancholy in a moving meditation on filmmaking and cinema.

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