Los Abrazos Rotos 

Event Details

WHEN: Friday, November 20th to Tuesday, January 19th WHERE: Sunshine Cinema 143 E Houston St New York, NY 10002 Venue Website HOOD: Lower East Side, Manhattan

COST: $12.50 AGE: N/A MORE INFO: Landmark Sunshine Broken Embraces

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Event Description

Spanish autor Pedro Almodovar’s latest, Broken Embraces (aka Los Abrazos Rotos, stars his muse Penelope Cruz and might just win her another Oscar nomination. This is Almodovar’s 17th film!

Broken Embraces is told in flashback by Harry Caine (Luís Homar), a blind screenwriter, who reveals that before a horrible car accident took his sight he was the famous director Mateo Blanc, who once made a movie with Lena (Penelope Cruz) called Chicasy Maletas, a kinky comedy reminiscent to of Almodovar’s own Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

“The eagerly awaited 17th feature by one of the world’s leading directors, Pedro Almodóvar (Volver, Talk to Her), is a lavish melodrama tinged with humor, showcasing the spectacular talents of Penélope Cruz. The story is told in flashback by Harry Caine (Lluís Homar, Bad Education), a blind screenwriter, who reveals that before an auto accident took his sight and the life of his love, he was the famous director Mateo Blanc. He had fallen in love with his leading lady, Lena (Cruz), who had made movie star when the ruthless industrialist Ernesto Martel (José Luis Gómez) became her lover and patron. The film Mateo is making with Lena (for which the jealous Martel insists on being producer) is a kinky comedy called Girls and Suitcases, reminiscent of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. As Mateo and Lena try to get away together for a romantic tryst, Martel’s gay son is constantly following and videotaping them for a “making of” feature—which Martel uses for surveillance (even getting a lip reader to decode the lovers’ conversations).