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Broken Embraces

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2009

Pedro Almodóvar

Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo, José Luis Gómez ...

6.3

26,335

Drama. Romance A man (Lluis Omar) writes, lives and loves in the darkness. He was the victim of a brutal car accident fourteen years ago. Not only did he lose his sight, but also the woman of his life, Lena (Penelope Cruz). He was a movie director, and Lena was his main actress and his lover, although she lived with a successful mogul (José Luis Gómez).

	Media	Author	Review
		Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"'Broken Embraces': Wholly Delightful. (...) the presence of Penélope Cruz is incendiary, (...) And Mr. Almodóvar's love of movies informs every frame of this beautiful film."
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Look at Almodovar's command of framing here (...) Never has he made a film more visually pulsating, and Almodovar is not shy (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Jonathan Holland Variety	"A restless, rangy and frankly enjoyable genre-juggler that combines melodrama, comedy and more noir-hued darkness than ever before, the pic is held together by the extraordinary force of Almodovar's cinematic personality. But while its four-way in extremis love story dazzles, it never really catches fire."
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Cruz exudes a sensual aura of mystery that holds you spellbound. And Almodóvar, a true poet of cinema, creates images —horrifying and healing— that live inside your head like a waking dream (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The visual and aural textures are lush and sensual (...) and yet the rich colors and deep sonorities somehow illuminate an unusually austere emotional terrain."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It is a perfect type of pleasure which leaves one not unsatisfied exactly but with a feeling that its substance has vanished into the air like smoke (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Tim Robey Telegraph	"Sex, artistry, delirium: no one knows these things like Pedro, or sticks them in more devastating couture (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"The first Almodovar feature I've ever really liked, an expertly fashioned melodrama that steers mercifully clear of his usual puckishness and star-mongering"

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