Broken Embraces R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 16, 2010
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Penélope Cruz & Lluis Homar | |
| Performer: | Lola Dueñas, Ángela Molina, Rossy de Palma, Tamar Novas, Blanca Portillo, Kiti Manver & Chus Lampreave | |
| Directed by | Pedro Almodóvar | |
| Edited by | José Salcedo | |
| Screenwriting by | Pedro Almodóvar | |
| Composition by | Alberto Iglesias | |
| Produced by | Agustín Almodóvar | |
| Director of Photography: | Rodrigo Prieto |
Entertainment Reviews:
81%
75%
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Broken Embraces is certainly moody, and that's one of its charms. But behind the style is disappointing substance, a melodramatic story that's as old as Hollywood.
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Washington Times
3 stars out of 5 -- [T]he film's full of fine performances -- not least Cruz....There's much to enjoy here...
Total Film
[A] film that serves as a love letter to the movies, and a demonstration of the medium's mysterious power....Mr. Almodovar always loves to play games, thicken textures, keeps us enthralled by keeping us guessing.
Wall Street Journal
Rating: 2.5/4 --
While its self referencing love of cinema is a feast for any cinephile, I can't help but feel that the film ultimately just runs out of gas.
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From the Front Row
This melancholy romance is the first Almodovar feature I've ever really liked, an expertly fashioned melodrama that steers mercifully clear of his usual puckishness and star-mongering.
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Chicago Reader
It's hot-blooded, haunting and totally embraceable.
Rolling Stone
Rating: 2/4 --
One failing in the film is how boring it is to watch Cruz pretend to be a bad actress. The comic movie within a movie, which borrows from Women on the Verge, isn't funny.
Orlando Sentinel
Product Description:
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.
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- UPC: 043396345928
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