Broken Embraces (2009)

Highly Recommended

Spain/USA

Feature Film

Original Title: Los abrazos rotos

Writer/Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Cinematographer: Rodrigo Prieto

Composer: Alberto Iglesias

Cast: Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo, José Luis Gómez, Rubén Ochandiano, Tamar Novas

After he discovers that Ernesto Martel has died, Harry Caine, a blind film-maker, relays to his writing collaborator, the son of his agent, the story of how he came to know the millionaire 14 years earlier, of how he stole his mistress, and of how he came to lose his sight, in Almodóvar’s exhaustive, sprawling, and thoroughly involving melodrama. Iain.Stott