Broken Embraces DVD [2010]

Broken Embraces DVD [2010] Description

Pedro Almodóvar continues to reinvent Hollywoods Golden Age for a new era with Broken Embraces. A blind screenwriter in the present day, Mateo Blanco, a.k.a. Harry Caine (Lluís Homar), reminisces about his favourite leading lady to his assistant, Diego (Tamar Novas). In 1992, when Caine met Lena (Penelope Cruz), stockbroker Ernesto (Jose Luis Gómez) had just made the cash-strapped secretary his mistress. First, Ernesto pays for her mothers medical care; then he supports her dream to act. In the process, Caine casts her in his screwball comedy and falls in love, and a passionate affair begins. Ernesto suspects something is up, so he hires his shifty son, Ernesto Jr. (the off-key Ruben Ochandiano), to film the couple surreptitiously, and a lip reader translates their conversations. Caines production manager, Judit (Volvers Blanca Portillo), further complicates the scenario. By the end, Caine, whose name serves as a tip of the hat to hard-boiled author James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice), has lost his vision and his girl, and the culprit isnt as obvious as it seems. With Embraces, Almodóvar riffs on Tinseltown classics where greed and lust lead to death. If less successful than Live Flesh, a prior noir, his jigsaw storytelling remains just as riveting and his principal cast rises to the occasion, particularly Cruz, who plays a more passive character than usual and remains, much like Otto Premingers Laura before her, a mystery that no one, not even the filmmaker, can ever completely solve.--Kathleen C. Fennessy, Amazon.com rrr span class=h1Stills from Broken Embraces (Click for larger image) table border=0 cellpadding=4 width=100% cellspacing=4 tr align=center valign=top tdmg border=0 align=left src=https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/sony/APlusDetailPages/Broken_Embraces/BE_1_S.jpg r /td tdmg border=0 align=left src=https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/sony/APlusDetailPages/Broken_Embraces/BE_2_S.jpg r /td tdmg border=0 align=left src=https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/sony/APlusDetailPages/Broken_Embraces/BE_3_S.jpg -td tr align=center valign=top tdmg border=0 align=left src=https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/sony/APlusDetailPages/Broken_Embraces/BE_4_S.jpg -td tdmg border=0 align=left src=https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/sony/APlusDetailPages/Broken_Embraces/BE_5_S.jpg -td tdmg border=0 align=left src=https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/sony/APlusDetailPages/Broken_Embraces/BE_6_S.