Los abrazos rotos (Broken Embraces)

What's with Spanish filmmakers and their need to jump backwards and forwards in time, only to create tragic stories that don't amount to a whole lot in the end? After "The Burning Plain", I was hoping that Pedro Almodovar's new film... Full review

I write as a committed fan of both Pedro Almodovar and Penelope Cruz so any new film from the Spanish maestro is always going to find favour with me. Broken Embraces is no exception. The film does, however, seem to lack... Full review

Harry Caine is a blind scenarist and an outdated film director, whose life is broken down due to a traffic accident 14 years ago in 1994. While he was directing his movie "Girls and Suitcases" he was having an affair with... Full review

Pedro Almodovar is an Oscar winning director that has won more awards than you can shake a stick at. He's been nominated for the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival, won at the Venice Film Festival and won a People's... Full review

That's not the final quote of Los Abrazos Rotos, but an easy misquotation of what sure is the most important line of the whole movie; and what defines it. I never got in touch with Pedro Almodovar's work, even though I... Full review

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... Full review

An intelligent, sensitive, cruel and ironic reflection about realities intertwined... Past and present, self and alter-ego, movie-in-the-movie and movie-about-the-movie-in-the-movie, all mingle together following a strange and thorough recipe. Almodovar meditates about the condition of the artist, without the melodramatic heroics of... Full review

His movies have always been a chaos. Both a controlled and uncontrolled one. I am among those who have liked them that way, but maybe Almodovar has calmed down now. This is about the blind director, who is still a womanizer.... Full review

Make no mistake this is a very accomplished film. However, it seems to me there is a significant problem with the first half hour. The characters as portrayed at this point are really wooden and do not ring 'true'. We're effectively... Full review

I'm not really an Almodovar buff, I've seen three or four of his movies - including Volver - and on the whole I can take him or leave him. He clearly knows enough not to shoot without first removing the lens... Full review

Embraces" is a touching, satiric melodrama which jumps back and forth between the mid-1990's and 2008.....the release of the poorly made film serves as his revenge against Mateo and Lena for breaking his heart.....In 2008 Martel's son, Ray X (Ruben Ochendiando) wants Caine to help him make a film so good....Cut to years later where Lena has moved in with Martel as his lover, obviously blurring the lines between whore and saint..... ... Full Review

Broken Embraces shows Almodovar's mastery.... ... Full Review

Almodovar, who extinguished his rascally ways long ago to hone his craft as a master of melodrama, doesn't push any boundaries with "Broken Embraces.....A spiraling, sensual story of noirish obsession and paranoia, "Embraces" is a riveting sit, due to the filmmaker's incredible storytelling gifts.... ... Full Review

a film noir potboiler of jealousy and revenge -....The story might seem simple at first -.... ... Full Review

var's more heartfelt films, Broken Embraces is a tale of lust, treachery and guilt, with artful homages to classic films.....As a film that pays tribute to vintage '50s Hollywood, Broken Embraces is a visual delight..... ... Full Review

Pedro Almodovar has hinted he may bring Antonio Banderas, Penelope Cruz and Carmen Maura together for a new film. The Oscar-winning Spanish director has made a habit of using his favourite actors time and time again, but has never cast... ... Full Article

Rachel Hunter is reportedly dating Eddie Irvine. The New Zealand-born model is said to be getting over her split from ice hockey player Jarret Stoll - who ended their relationship just seven weeks before they were due to marry this... ... Full Article

Can there be such a thing as exuberant melancholy? I can't think of another way to describe the spirit of "Broken Embraces," Pedro Almod?var 's latest film, the title of which carries a telling hint of paradox. ... Full Article

Pedro Almod?var's newest feature film Broken Embraces is a beautiful homage to cinema, an amalgam of styles that finds Almod?var's direction as graceful and strong as ever-there is a mature ripeness to these new images, which hold a delicately hidden... ... Full Article

What's Your Reaction? Pedro Almodovar's love affair with his leading lady is legend, as is his romance with movie stars of old. In his new movie, Broken Embraces, the Closing Night feature of the recent New York Film Festival that... ... Full Article

Cruz had to lie about her age to get in to see the acclaimed 1990 movie and admits it changed her life. She explains, 'I was 13 (and) I lied in the theatre - I said I was 17. ... Full Article