| BROKEN EMBRACES (LOS ABRAZOS ROTOS) Release Date: 17th December 2009 FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT DENDY CINEMAS Promotional Screening will be on Tuesday 15th December 6.45pm, at the Dendy Portside Cinema Hamilton RATED: M RUNNING TIME: 128mins GENRE: DRAMA/THRILLER DIRECTED BY: Pedro Almodóvar WRITTEN BY: Pedro Almodóvar STARRING: Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Lola Dueñas, Ángela Molina. STUDIO: PARAMOUNT/TRANSMISSION Website: www.brokenembraces.com.au Set in the 1990s and present day, centres on a fourway tale of dangerous love, shot in the style of a hard-boiled 1950s American film noir. 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 didn’t lose only 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 . |
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