BROKEN EMBRACES

From the director of Volver, All About My Mother, Talk to Her.

 A vibrant, mature love letter to the meaning of movies, and the dark-eyed muse Penélope Cruz, Almodóvar's Broken Embraces doesn't so much break new ground in the filmmaker's instantly recognizable terrain as deepen an understanding of how this stylish Spanish artist sees the world. And as every frame of this chic and playful comedy/melodrama attests, he sees the world — of personal relationships and creative collaboration — through a cinephile's magnifying lens. Lluís Homar plays a blind screenwriter who once loved his leading lady (Cruz, delectable). As for the lady, she was once the mistress of a jealous tycoon, who once bullied his gay son into spying on the mistress by documenting the shooting of their ill-fated collaboration…See Broken Embraces twice! –Entertainment Weekly “Penelope Cruz exudes a sensual aura of mystery that holds you spellbound. And Almodóvar, a true poet of cinema, creates images -- horrifying and healing -- that live inside your head like a waking dream. You want to miss a movie like that? I didn’t think so.” –Rolling Stone