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Mood:
- CleverEmotionalStylizedSentimentalSuspenseful
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Plot:
- BetrayalVengeanceObsessionCouple RelationsDestructive RelationshipLove TriangleFilmmakingLife Turned Upside Down more...
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Genres:
- DramaForeignNeo NoirPostmodernismMelodramaRomanceThriller
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary20th Century21st Century90s
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Place:
- MadridSpain
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Praise:
- Critically AcclaimedPrestigious Awards
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Style:
- Film in FilmNonlinearTwists and Turns
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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- NudityProfanitySexual Content
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Broken Embraces, 2009
Spanish
Spain
Profile of Broken Embraces
The mood of Broken Embraces is clever, emotional, and stylized. The plot centers around a life turned upside-down, filmmaking, and a destructive relationship. It is a drama, foreign, and thriller movie. Stylistically, Broken Embraces is postmodernist, is a film in a film, and is neo-noir. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is Madrid. Broken Embraces happens in the 1990s and in contemporary times. The movie is known for being critically acclaimed. Note that it includes nudity, sexual content, and profanity.
Summary of Broken Embraces
After LIVE FLESH, ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER, and VOLVER, director Pedro Almodóvar and his muse Penélope Cruz unite for a fourth time with this drama. Here, Almodóvar delves into noir style to tell a tale of a man (BAD EDUCATION’s Lluis Homar) with dual identities who tries to compartmentalize his life after he loses his love (Cruz) and his sight in a car crash.
Details
| Language: | Spanish |
| Country: | Spain |
| Release date: | 11 October 2009 |
| Runtime: | 127 min |
Cast and Crew
as Lena
as Mateo Blanco / Harry Caine
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