Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Broken Embraces (Los Abrazos Rotos)

Foreign, Drama
3.5 stars
Interesting story. A blind film director learns of the recent death of a businessman he dealt with 14 years ago. This spurs him to recount the story to his assistant’s son about how they knew each other and the woman they both loved, Penelope Cruz. This was definitely a complicated and interesting movie. The beginning of the film seems confusing as there are a lot of characters and it switches back and forth from the past to the present, but it eventually smoothes out and starts to make sense. Spanish with subtitles and includes a few sex scenes. Good movie, though I’m not sure I agree that it’s worthy of a Best Foreign Film nomination.

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