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Broken Embraces, released in Spain under the title Los abrazos rotos, is a 2009 romance, drama and thriller film with LGBTQ-related themes, written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar and produced by Agustín Almodóvar through El Deseo. Set partly in the 1990s and filmed in Madrid and the Canary Islands, it stars Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo and José Luis Gómez, with Rodrigo Prieto as director of photography, José Salcedo as editor, Sonia Grande as costume designer and Alberto Iglesias as composer. Released on 18 March 2009 with a budget of 18,000,000 dollars, it took 30,991,660 dollars at the box office and ran 129 minutes. The film received the European Film Award for Best Composer and was nominated for three further European Film Awards.
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7.2Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
Cast
- Penélope Cruz as Lena
- Lluís Homar as Mateo Blanco / Harry Caine
- Blanca Portillo as Judit García
- José Luis Gómez as Ernesto Martel
- Rubén Ochandiano as Ray X
- Tamar Novas as Diego
Themes
- jealousy
- madrid, spain
- obsession
- love
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Key facts
- Spanish
- Los abrazos rotos
- Directed by
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Written by
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Produced by
- Esther García Agustín Almodóvar
- Starring
- Penélope Cruz Lluís Homar Blanca Portillo José Luis Gómez Rubén Ochandiano Tamar Novas
- Cinematography
- Rodrigo Prieto
- Edited by
- José Salcedo
- Music by
- Alberto Iglesias
- Production company
- El Deseo
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. Entertainment España
- Release date
- 18 March 2009 ( 2009-03-18 )
- Running time
- 128 minutes
- Country
- Spain
- Languages
- Spanish English
- Budget
- $18 million
- Box office
- $37.4 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Participant in
- 22nd European Film Awards
- Genre
- LGBTQ-related film
- Country of origin
- Spain
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Screenwriter
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Composer
- Alberto Iglesias
- Producer
- Agustín Almodóvar
- Production company
- El Deseo
- Cinematographer
- Rodrigo Prieto
- Narrative location
- Canary Islands
- Filming location
- Canary Islands
- Duration
- 129
- FilmAffinity ID
- 108145
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.losabrazosrotos.com
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- title
- Los abrazos rotos
- publication date
- 2009-08-14
- film editor
- José Salcedo
- set in period
- 1990s
- costume designer
- Sonia Grande
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 76/100
- capital cost
- 18000000
- box office
- 37473982
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Encyclopedic overview
Broken Embraces (Spanish: Los abrazos rotos) is a 2009 Spanish romantic drama film written, produced, and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Led by an ensemble cast consisting of many Almodóvar regulars, it stars Lluís Homar as a blind Madrilenian screenwriter who recalls his tragic love for Lena, played by Penélope Cruz, the deceased lead actress in his last directional feature Girls and Suitcases, who was also the mistress of a powerful, obsessive businessman (José Luis Gómez). Blanca Portillo co-stars as his agent Judit, while Tamar Novas portrays her son and Caine's co-writer Diego.
Inspired by darkness and by a photo of a couple that Almodóvar took of El Golfo beach in Lanzarote in the late 1990s, the film serves as an homage to filmmaking, cinema and its various film genres. Stylistically, the film has been described as a hybrid of film noir and melodrama. Thematically, Broken Embraces addresses themes like voyeurism, repression, prostitution, death, vengeance, fixation, illness, and drugs.
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