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telegraph.co.uk - 5/19/2009

Broken Embraces at Cannes 2009 review

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Spain: Pedro Almodóvar; Penelope Cruz Lluis Homar. Rating

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usmagazine.com - 5/18/2009

Penelope Cruz Gets Food Poisoning in Cannes

— usmagazine.com — At least it's not the swine flu. Penelope Cruz was sidelined by food poisoning while in Cannes,... France, on Monday. See who showed up to the Cannes Film Festival last year. The Oscar-winning actress, who was at the film festival to premiere ... Penelope Cruz Gets Food Poisoning in Cannes

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guardian.co.uk - 5/19/2009

Cannes film festival: Almodóvar's Broken Embraces reels you in

— guardian.co.uk — Pedro Almodóvar reunites with Penélope Cruz for a sensuous film-within-a-film that is a moviegoer's delight Pedro Almodóvar... has always managed to combine elegance and exuberance, and his latest movie is no exception: a richly enjoyable piece of ... Cannes film festival: Almodóvar's Broken Embraces reels ...

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indiewire.com - 5/19/2009

“Broken” Record: Almodovar’s Latest Repeats His Greatest Hits

— indiewire.com — Pedro Almodovar offers nothing new in his latest feature, “Abrazos Rotos” (“Broken Embraces”), but that’s probably enough... for his devout followers. With solid performances and a script that’s never too hard on the ears, Spain’s superstar director merely repeats the themes and conflicts of his ... “Broken” Record: Almodovar’s Latest Repeats His Greatest ...

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‘Broken Embraces,’ ‘Vincere’ bow at Cannes
In Contention — ... it a “mixed bag of smart ideas … rather than a coherent, distinct work of art,” while the Telegraph’s David Gritten loves Penelope Cruz’s performance, saying it excels her recent Oscar-winning work, but thinks the film “treads water rather than breaks new ground.” ...

Caness 2009: Broken Embraces Trailer, Photos, Poster And Reviews
FilmoFilia — ... …He is at his best in such films as Live Flesh, All About My Mother and Volver, with their personal, deeply felt narratives. Instead, Broken Embraces often feels like a schematic exercise, an ingenious puzzle that requires a film within a film to supply answers… One hopes Broken Embraces is a breather for Almodovar, a chance to take stock of the themes that intrigue him. Next time, a simpler, more affecting story would be welcome.” Telegraph ...

ROUND UP V: Pedro on Pedro, “Vincere” Premieres, and Sundance in Cannes
indieWIRE Recent — ... the film, also wondering “if Almodóvar isn’t in danger of retreading old ideas,” and stating that film “is always conspicuously concerned with passion, but without being itself fully passionate.” With that in mind, he also goes on to call “Rotos” “a richly enjoyable piece of work, slick and sleek, with a sensuous feel for the cinematic surfaces of things and, as ever, self-reflexively infatuated with the business of cinema itself.” Bradshaw’s fellow Brit David Gritten, gives another review that plays like a “Rotos” record: “Yet while his new film parades his many virtues, it ...

Cannes 2009 Scorecard - Day 7
DAILY FILM DOSE: A Daily Film Appreciation and Review Blog — ... David Gritten, Guardian UK, writes, "Broken Embraces parades his many virtues, it treads water rather than breaks new ground...This premise is too convoluted for its own good, a charge that could also be leveled at Almodovar’s last disappointing film, 2004’s Bad Education. He seems so intent on jamming as many elements as possible into his story that his characters lack dimension." ...