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- 127 Minutes
- Sony Pictures Classics
- Language Spanish
- Subtitles English
- Country Spain
- Rated:
- Format: 2.35:1
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- Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
- Written by Pedro Almodóvar
- Starring Blanca Portillo, LluÃs Homar, Lola Dueñas, Penélope Cruz
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A luminous Penélope Cruz stars as an actress who sacrifices everything for true love in BROKEN EMBRACES, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar's acclaimed tale of sex, secrets and cinema. When her father becomes gravely ill, beautiful Lena (Cruz) consents to a relationship with her boss Ernesto (Gómez), a very wealthy, much-older man who pays for her father's hospitalization and provides her a lavish lifestyle. But Lena's dream is to act and soon she falls for the director of her first film -- a project bankrolled by her husband to keep her near. Upon his discovery of the affair, Ernesto stops at nothing to ruin Lena's happiness.
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Won: A u d i e n c e A w a r d B e s t F o r e i g n - L a n g u a g e F i l m , A u d i e n c e A w a r d I n t e r n a t i o n a l F e a t u r e F i l m , < e m > 2 0 0 9 S ? ?? ? o P a u l o I n t e r n a t i o n a l F i l m F
Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film, 2010 Golden Globes; Golden Palm, 2009 Cannes Film Festival
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Art and life have become thrillingly fused.
-- David Edelstein, NEW YORK MAGAZINE
- More on Broken Embraces:
- Official film Web site
- P r o f i l e o f d i r e c t o r P e d r o A l m o d ? ?? ? v a r