Broken Embraces
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| Directed by | Pedro Almodóvar |
| Produced by | Pedro Almodóvar Agustín Almodóvar |
| Written by | Pedro Almodóvar |
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Penélope Cruz Blanca Portillo Lluís Homar Lola Dueñas Ángela Molina Rossy de Palma |
| Music by | Alberto Iglesias |
| Cinematography | Rodrigo Prieto |
| Edited by | José Salcedo |
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Universal Pictures International (Spain) Sony Pictures Classics |
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128 minutes |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish English |
| Budget | $18 million |
| Box office | $30,991,660 |
Broken Embraces (Spanish: Los abrazos rotos) is a 2009 Spanish romantic thriller film written, produced, and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Led by an ensemble cast consisting of many Almodóvar regulars, it stars Lluís Homar as a blind Madrilenian screenwriter who recalls his tragic love for Lena, played by Penélope Cruz, the deceased lead actress in his last directional feature Girls and Suitcases, who was also the mistress of a powerful, obsessive businessman (José Luis Gómez). Blanca Portillo co-stars as his agent Judit, while Tamar Novas portrays her son and Caine's co-writer Diego.
Inspired by darkness and by a photo of a couple, that Almodóvar took of El Golfo beach in Lanzarote in the late 1990s, the film serves as an homage to filmmaking, cinema and its various film genres. Stylistically, it is a complex noir-ish melodrama, that also blends comic elements with a film within a film—a broad comedy, that hearkens back to Almodóvar's 1988 release, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Thematically, Broken Embraces addresses themes like voyeurism, repression, prostitution, death, vengeance, fixation, illness, and drugs.
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