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Full Cannes Film Festival coverage Films about filmmaking are almost invariably deeply personal works for their director. Fellini s 8 , Truffaut s Day For Night : both movies contain the creative essence and the artistic insecurities of the filmmaker laid bare with a candour that is not ...
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‘Broken Embraces,’ ‘Vincere’ bow at Cannes
In Contention —
... , labels it “Almodovar lite” and discusses the film’s allusions to “Peeping Tom” (not “an old 50s movie,” by the way). Wendy Ide at the Times coolly calls 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 ...
Caness 2009: Broken Embraces Trailer, Photos, Poster And Reviews
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... …The layered structure of the story is echoed effectively by the use of reflections and images within images in the film. There is, it has to be said, no shortage of ideas here, and cineastes will have fun spotting all the movie references. Still, ultimately a fundamental problem stems from just that: the film feels like a mixed bag of smart ideas and nods to other pictures, rather than a coherent, distinct work of art.” TimesOnline ...
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The Wrap RSS 5/19/2009
By Sharon Waxman You could have heard a pin drop in the press room as Penelope Cruz recounted the performance of a sex scene in her new movie, “Broken Embraces,” (Los Abrazos Rotos) directed by the man who helped launch her ...