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Posted: January 2, 2010

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Penelope Cruz in love with Lluis Homar in 'Broken Embraces'

Broken Embraces (Los Abrazos Rotos)

broken-embraces-01-cruz-and-jose-luis-gomez-c-sony-picture-classicsDirector: Pedro Almodóvar
Writer
: Pedro Almodóvar
Producers
: Esther García

Stars:

Penélope Cruz
Lluís Homar

Blanca Portillo

Tri-genre: noir romance suspense
Story Situation
: dangerous love
Satisfaction Rating
: above average
Maturity Rating
: 13+

broken-embraces-07-cruzPlotline: Mateo (Lluis Homar) lives, lusts and writes in the dark.  He was the victim of a violent car accident fourteen years previously.  Not only did he lose his vision, but also the love of his life, Lena (Penelope Cruz).  He was a movie director and Lena was his leading lady on-set and steamy lover off-set.  But it was a secret passion because Lena was stuck in an intimate relationship with jealous aging tycoon Ernesto (Jose Luis Gomez).  The situation grows increasingly tense as Lena pulls away from the ever-suspicious Ernesto and into the arms of her true love Mateo … until the accident.

broken-embraces-05Now, under the pseudonym Harry Caine, Mateo lives a quiet life as a novelist with his past suppressed. But after an unintended drug mishap involving Diego (Tamar Novas), the son of his business partner Judit (Blanca Portillo), Mateo sits vigilantly at his bedside and entertains him by recounting the whole sad tale, revealing his suspcion that the tycoon’s son Ray (Ruben Ochandiano) may have been responsible for the fatal accident and that he may not yet be done with his underhanded deeds.  Then Judit reveals the truth that Diego is Mateo’s own son from their short fling. Suspicion now turns to her.

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