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Los abrazos rotos / Sony Pictures Classics ; El Deseo en asociación con Universal Pictures International ; guión y dirección, Pedro Almodóvar ; productor, Agustín Almodóvar ; producida por Esther García.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Standardized Title:
- Abrazos rotos (Motion picture)
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Love--Drama.
- Love.
- Blind--Drama.
- Blind.
- Traffic accidents--Drama.
- Traffic accidents.
- May-December romances--Drama.
- May-December romances.
- Motion picture producers and directors--Canary Islands--Lanzarote--Drama.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (128 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Broken embraces
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Sony Pictures Classics, 2009.
- Language Note:
- In Spanish, with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- A luminous Penélope Cruz stars as an actress who sacrifices everything for true love in Broken Embraces, Academy Award® -winning filmmaker (2003, Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Talk to Her) Pedro Almodóvar's acclaimed tale of sex, secrets and cinema. When her father becomes gravely ill, beautiful Lena (Cruz) consents to a relationship with her boss Ernesto (José Luis Gómez), a very wealthy, much-older man who pays for her father's hospitalization and provides her a lavish lifestyle. But Lena's dream is to act and soon she falls for the director of her first film - a project bankrolled by her husband to keep her near. Upon his discovery of the affair, Ernesto stops at nothing to ruin Lena's happiness.
- Participant:
- Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo, José Luis Gómez, Rubén Ochandiano, Tamar Novas, Ángela Molina, Chus Lampreave, Kiti Mánver, Lola Dueñas, Mariola Fuentes, Carmen Machi, Kira Miró, Rossy de Palma, Alejo Sauras.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed April 11, 2019).
- Nominated 2010 Golden Globes, USA, Best Foreign Language Film
- Nominated 2010 BAFTA Awards, Best Film Not in the English Language
- Nominated 2009 Cannes Film Festival, Palme d'Or
- 2nd place 2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Best Foreign Language Film
- OCLC:
- 1101007245
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