BROKEN EMBRACES
Title: BROKEN EMBRACES
Original title: LOS ABRAZOS ROTOS
Section: Open Air
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast list: Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo, José Luis Gómez, Tamar Novas, Rubén Ochandiano
Credits:
screenplay: Pedro Almodóvar; director of photography: Rodrigo Prieto; editor: José Salcedo; music: Alberto Iglesias; production design: Antxón Gómez; costume design: Sonia Grande; producer: Esther García; production: El Deseo S.A., Universal International Pictures (UI);
Country: Spain
Year: 2009
Running time: 129
Colour: Colour
Format: 35 mm
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.
