Broken Embraces

Los abrazos rotos, feature film, romantic drama, triler, Spain, 2009

DIRECTED BY: Pedro Almodóvar

Broken Embraces

CAST:
Penélope Cruz (Lena),
Lluís Homar (Mateo Blanco / Harry Caine),
Blanca Portillo (Judit García),
José Luis Gómez (Ernesto Martel)

SCRIPT:
Pedro Almodóvar

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Rodrigo Prieto

MUSIC:
Alberto Iglesias

EDITING:
José Salcedo

Synopsis:
Harry Caine is a blind writer who spends most of his time in his apartment, accompanied by his agent Judith and her son Diego. Slowly we discover a past in which he used to be called Mateo Blanco who worked as a film director. We flash back to a time when he was preparing a new film starring Lena. Her obsessive husband, Ernesto Martel, disapproves of his wife’s career, fearing that he may lose her.

color, 127'

Trailer