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18 March 2009 (Spain) morePlot:
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie. | full synopsisAwards:
2 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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Four nominated for the European Film Award (From MovieScore Magazine. 9 November 2009, 3:02 AM, PST)
What's Left in 2009?
(From FilmExperience. 8 November 2009, 1:48 PM, PST)
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Broken Embraces (International: English title) (UK) (USA)Broken Hugs (USA) (literal English title)
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Rated R for sexual content, language and some drug material.Parents Guide:
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2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Ireland:15A | USA:R (certificate #45474) | Argentina:16 | New Zealand:M | France:U | Portugal:M/12 (Qualidade) | Netherlands:12 | Finland:K-11 | UK:15 | South Korea:18Fun Stuff
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The director revealed in an interview that the character played by Carmen Machi was inspired by his real-life friend, Blanca Sánchez, who, in the 1980s, had a relationship with a man who unbeknownst to her was a member of the Basque separatist group E.T.A. Sanchez was also used as the inspiration for the character Candela played by María Barranco in Pedro Almodóvar's breakthrough hit Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988). moreGoofs:
Anachronisms: At the end of the movie, during Matteo remakes the video, we see two chairs in old video record which are made by Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola for Italian furniture brand Moroso (Antibodi chaise lounge - produced in 2006). While Lena was going to open the door for red dress woman there behind we can see each of them. And also outside in the terrace we can see another chair designed by P. Urquiola for Moroso (Tropicalia chair - produced in 2009). But from 1990 to 1996 P. Urquiola was the assistant professor to Achille Castiglioni and Eugenio Bettinelli at the Politecnico Di Milano and ENSCI in Paris. moreSoundtrack:
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A consistent but drifting film. It's as if the director has his mind one thing but presents the audience with another. It's a highly professional version of the one film every film maker gets to do, i.e. the somewhat indulgent, possibly biopic rumination on their life in their work.
Broken Embraces is about the film-making process: its temptations, sacrifices, politics, frustrations, contradictions and rewards. Almodovar is discreet about his own love of the medium, barring one painful trawl through his own (by extension) DVD collection. The problem is that he can't quite settle on which plot thread to make the principal story. Essentially it's a flashback tale in the life of the director- scriptwriter Mateo, played well if imperfectly by Lluís Homar. The most significant drama is his love affair with his leading lady - Cruz as muse, here in art, as in Almodovar's life. She is good, if predictable. So it goes on.
There are plot dead ends, dramatic peaks which have little precedent and go nowhere... strangely it hangs together, although I was a little bored. 4/10