Though not one of his better films,Los abrazos rotos is one of Pedro Almodóvar's most somber and melancholy productions. As usual we are treated to all of the complicated narrative Almodovar touches regarding an obsession with life, death and passionate love, but Broken Embraces is complicated by his clear fascination and love of everything cinema.Hidden in every twist and turn there are references to his early "Douglas Sirk" work- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Film Noir (where Penélope Cruz is pushed down a grand staircase) and to the screen icons of Audrey Hepburn and Monroe, but ultimately Broken Embraces is a film about the making of a film.
Mind you I absolutely hated the English title.......
Cruz is wonderful as the trophy wife/prostitute/ actress/lover and I was rather impressed with the sour faced Blanca Portillo who plays a plain assistant to Cruz' lover...
I liked it, but it was certainly not in the league of say All about my mother,Bad Education and Volver
I gave it a good 7.5 outof 10
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