Cannes 2009: Broken Embraces Trailer, Photos, Poster And Reviews
Pedro Almodovar’s latest film “Broken Embraces” (”Los Abrazos Rotos“) shown at Cannes Film Festival in competition, drops his distinctive comic melodrama for the best tradition of “film noir,” the dark and stylish film genre used in many crime dramas.
Oscar-winning director Almodovar (for foreign-language film with “All About My Mother” and original screenplay for “Talk to Her.”) described his 17th film and with the highest budget yet of 11 million euros ($14.16 million), as “the story of my love for the cinema.”
“The film noir genre is one of my favorites. The fact this film was really “black” was what was very satisfying.”
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The film stars recent Oscar winner Penelope Cruz in the role of a tragedy-dogged aspiring actress.
“Broken Embraces” centers on a quartet of characters in the movie business whose lives are interwoven in a torrid tale of love, power, secrecy, betrayal and vengeance. There is the actress Lena (Cruz), script writer and director Mateo (Lluis Homar), film producer Judith (Blanca Portillo) and unscrupulous financier Ernesto (José Luis Gómez).
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Almodovar’s Broken Embraces Teaser Trailer
Here’s the teaser trailer for new Pedro Almodovar’s movie “Broken Embraces” (”Los Abrazos Rotos“).
“Broken Embraces” is set in the ’90s and present day. It will be with Almodovar’s themes:
“Fate, the mystery of creation, guilt, unscrupulous power, the eternal search of fathers for sons, and sons for fathers,” said Pedro Almodovar.
“Penelope Cruz will exchange the era’s aprons, cardigans and the hairdos for an updated look, but one that mixes the transparent turbulence of Gene Tierney and the mistreated, challenging beauty of Linda Darnell in Otto Preminger’s ‘Fallen Angel,’ “Pedro Almodovar explained, talking about points of departure for the film.
Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz Embrace New Project – ‘Los Abrazos Rotos’
Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz are teaming up again, following their acclaimed collaboration on Volver. Their new project is a drama entitled Los Abrazos Rotos (Broken Embraces), which begins filming next month in Spain.Details of the plot are still unclear although Almodóvar has previously said that the movie, which he also wrote, will be shot in the “style of a 50s film noir”.
“It’s the longest script I’ve ever written,” the Spanish director told El Mundo last December. “It’s got something of film noir. There will be about an hour of American film noir from the 1950s. It won’t be a comedy but there will be humour.
“Cruz is to portray a woman who has a passionate and destructive love life. On his blog (www.pedroalmodovar.es), Almodóvar explains how he sees Cruz’s characters leading two very different lives. One life sees her “grave, hurt, pursued by fate … a fallen angel, a woman straight out from a 50s thriller translated to the 90s”. The other facet will see her “blonde, light, pop, ingénue, absurd”. Almodóvar’s blog, available in Spanish, English and French, promises to chronicle production on Los Abrazos Rotos.
Regular Almodóvar contributors, such as Rossy de Palma, Kiti Manver, Chus Lampreave and Lola Dueñas have also joined the cast. Veteran actor Ángela Molina, who starred in Live Flesh, will play Cruz’s mother.
It was previously thought that Cruz and Almodóvar would work on a thriller entitled La Piel Que Habito (The Skin I Live In), the story of a plastic surgeon who exacts revenge on the men who raped his daughter. But it seems the project, adapted from the novel Mygale (Tarantula) by French writer Thierry Jonquet, has been put on the backburner. “I am thinking of filming it after Broken Embraces,” writes Almodovar on his blog, “but I still want to tinker with the script.”
‘Los Abrazos rotos’ next Pedro Almodovar’s film
Pedro Almodovar’s next film will be ‘Los abrazos rotos’. Penelope Cruz, Blanca Portillo and Llius Homar will star. ‘Abrazos’ will go into pre-production next year, with Almodovar aiming to shoot in the spring. The film will lense partly in Madrid.
El Deseo, the Madrid production house owned by Pedro and producer brother Agustin Almodovar, will produce the film. Budget is about $15 million.
‘Abrazos’ is set in the ’90s and present day. It will be with Almodovar’s themes: ‘Fate, the mystery of creation, guilt, unscrupulous power, the eternal search of fathers for sons, and sons for fathers.’ said Pedro Almodovar.
Echoing traditional financing practices on Almodovar movies, the brothers aim to pre-sell a small clutch of foreign territories to long-term distributors of Almodovar film, said Agustin Almodovar.
‘Penelope (Cruz) will exchange the era’s aprons, cardigans and the hairdos for an updated look, but one that mixes the transparent turbulence of Gene Tierney and the mistreated, challenging beauty of Linda Darnell in Otto Preminger’s ‘Fallen Angel,’ ‘ Pedro Almodovar explained, talking about points of departure for the film.
He is completing the screenplay. ‘Like some of my other films – ‘Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown’ – this film came easily, in one go, ‘Almodovar said.
