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Broken Embraces
Release Date: 20100316
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Original Release: 2009
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A luminous Penlope Cruz stars as an actress who sacrifices everything for true love in BROKEN EMBRACES, Academy Award -winning filmmaker (2003, Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Talk to Her) Pedro Almodvar's acclaimed tale of sex, secrets and cinema. When her father becomes gravely ill, beautiful Lena (Cruz) consents to a relationship with her boss Ernesto (Jos Luis Gmez), a very wealthy, much-older man who pays for her father's hospitalization and provides her a lavish lifestyle. But Lena's dream is to act and soon she falls for the director of her first film - a project bankrolled by her husband to keep her near. Upon his discovery of the affair, Ernesto stops at nothing to ruin Lena's happiness. Rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for sexual content, language and some drug material.
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Sure Penelope will get all the attention
and there is no demeaning here,
as she is a great actress.
But, it is Judit (Blanca Portillo's) performance
that really put this film
where it is at, I believe.
It was her next to last scene (The Confession)
that really held me spellbound.
And anyone who saw her with Cruz
in "Volver" (another must-see film) will know what I mean!
She definitely deserves the limelight, thouogh in this one!
Bravo!
Oh yes, and I always love seeing Penelope Cruz'
breasts; what a gorgeous body!!
Complex, Spanish noir with a well crafted narrative told in flashback fashion. Though the dialogue requires subtitle reading, viewers will be rewarded with a well woven, believable melodrama with fully developed characters. Well cast and acted. Highly stylised cinematography.
Five stars if you are fluent in Spanish, four stars if not. If you don't like reading subtitles, watch something else!