All moviesBroken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos)

Rated:

R (for sexual content, language and some drug material)

Running time:

128 minutes

Synopsis:

A man writes, lives and loves in darkness. Fourteen years before, he was in a brutal car crash on the island of Lanzarote. In the accident, he lost his sight along with the love of his life, Lena. This man uses two names: Harry Caine, a playful pseudonym with which he signs his literary works, stories and scripts, and Mateo Blanco, his real name, with which he lives and signs the film he directs. After the accident, Mateo Blanco reduces himself to his pseudonym, Harry Caine. If he can't direct films he can only survive with the idea that Mateo Blanco died on Lanzarote with his beloved Lena.

Release date:

November 20, 2009

Website:

http://www.sonyclassics.com/brokenembraces/

Capsule review:

Pedro Almodovar’s melodrama (or do you say meta-drama?) about a movie director (Lluis Homar) in love with his star (Penelope Cruz), who is the mistress of the industrialist financing his film.