FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
Broken Embraces
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Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer82%as of 2025-01-19
- Rotten Tomatoes average7/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic76/100as of 2025-12-02
What it is
Broken Embraces 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
At a glance
- Genres
- Romance / Drama / Thriller
- Original language
- Spanish
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