Domestic “Broken Embraces” Trailer
Sony Pictures Classic has released domestic trailer for Pedro Almodovar’s latest film “Broken Embraces” (”Los abrazos rotos“).
“Broken Embraces” synopsis: A man writes, lives and loves in darkness. Fourteen years before, he was in a brutal car crash on the island of Lanzarote. In the accident, he not only lost his sight, he also lost Lena, the love of his life.
This man uses two names: Harry Caine, a playful pseudonym with which he signs his literary works, stories and scripts, and Mateo Blanco, his real name, with which he lives and signs the film he directs. After the accident, Mateo Blanco reduces himself to his pseudonym, Harry Caine. If he can’t direct films he can only survive with the idea that Mateo Blanco died on Lanzarote with his beloved Lena. In the present day, Harry Caine lives thanks to the scripts he writes and to the help he gets from his faithful former production manager, Judit García, and from Diego, her son, his secretary, typist and guide.
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.
Javier Bardem wins Spanish prize
Javier Bardem wins Spain’s National Cinema Prize by Spain’s ICAA film institute.
Spain’s National Cinema Prize was created in 1980, and helmer Carlos Saura was the first recipient.
The jury took into consideration Bardem’s career achievements, especially last year, as well as his “defense of the acting profession and continued commitment to Spanish film at home and abroad.”
“I take the prize to be a mark of affection from Spanish filmmakers, from my colleagues, and this touches me deeply,” Bardem said.
Earlier awarded filmmakers are directors Luis Garcia-Berlanga and Pedro Almodovar, actors Francisco Rabal and Fernando Rey and distributor-exhibitor Enrique Gonzalez-Macho.
Universal to co-finance Almodovar’s ‘Los abrazos rotos’
Universal Pictures will co-finance Pedro Almodovar’s “Los abrazos rotos” (Broken Embraces), with Focus Features Intl. handling foreign sales.
The film, starring Penelope Cruz, starts shooting May 26 in Madrid and the Canary Islands.
Focus will handle sales in all foreign territories except Spain, where Almodovar’s own production outfit El Deseo retains the rights, and those countries where Almodovar traditionally partners with Pathe, France, the U.K., Benelux and Switzerland.
There is no U.S. distribution deal yet for the movie.
The deal between El Deseo, Universal and Focus continues a long-standing link that dates back to days when Focus was an independent known as Good Machine, jointly run by David Linde, now U’s co-chairman, Focus president James Schamus and Ted Hope.
Focus Intl. previously was sales agent for Almodovar’s “Volver,” “Bad Education” and “Talk to Her,” as well as other El Deseo titles, including “The Secret Life of Words” and “My Life Without Me.”
This is the first time Universal has co-financed one of Almodovar’s movies.
Focus is also handling sales for El Deseo’s “La mujer sin cabeza” (The Headless Woman), directed by Lucrecia Martel (Cannes 2008)
Christian Grass, president of Universal’s Intl. Studio, said,
“Universal’s international production group is committed to providing the most comprehensive support possible for companies like El Deseo.”
‘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.
