Broken Embraces Film

From:March 9, 2010 20:00 to: March 9, 2010 22:00

Location: Ballina Arts Centre

Broken Embraces

(Dir: Pedro Almodovar, Spain, 2009)

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 didn’t lose only his sight, he also lost Lena, the love of his life. 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, but a name he has tried hard to forget.

Today, Harry (Lluis Homar) lives thanks to the scripts he writes and to the help he gets from his faithful former production manager, Judit García (Blanca Portillo), and her son Diego (Tamar Novas). One night Diego has an accident and Harry takes care of him (when his mother is out of town). During the first nights of his convalescence, Diego asks him about his time as Mateo Blanco.

Harry finds that he can’t refuse and he tells Diego what happened fourteen years before with the idea of entertaining him. Part of the main storyline is told in flashback as Harry narrates a tragic tale of fate, jealousy, abuse of power, betrayal and guilt.

Almodóvar’s regular muse Penelope Cruz steals the show as Harry’s lost lover Lena.

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