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Cannes report: Penelope Cruz in Almodovar's 'Broken Embraces'
Cannes report: Penelope Cruz in Almodovar's 'Broken Embraces'
For fans of Pedro Almodovar, the fabulous narrative and visual flourishes that have always distinguished the Spanish filmmaker's work are their own rewards. So I went into Broken Embraces receptive to delight. I've been hungry at Cannes for color, charm,...
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Broken Embraces at Cannes 2009  review
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telegraph.co.uk — Spain: Pedro Almodóvar; Penelope Cruz Lluis Homar. Rating Broken Embraces at Cannes 2009 review
Broken Embraces at the Cannes Film Festival
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk — 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 ... Broken Embraces at the Cannes Film Festival
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ROUND UP V: Pedro on Pedro, “Vincere” Premieres, and Sundance in Cannes
indieWIRE Recent — ... that plays like a “Rotos” record: “Yet while his new film parades his many virtues, it treads water rather than breaks new ground.” Though, once again, he ensures we know the following: “Even average Almodovar runs rings round most film-makers working at their peak.” Lisa Schwarzbaum’s mini-review for Entertainment Weekly is less critical in noting the film’s lack of new territory: “So although there’s nothing dramatically new from Almodovar in Broken Embraces, what’s there is so seamlessly chic, playful, and so unmistakably, grandly Pedrovian that I enjoyed giving into a ...

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