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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, bea...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Abrazos rotos (Motion picture)
Other Authors:	Almodóvar, Agustin (Director, Producer), García, Esther, 1956- (Producer)
Format:	Video
Language:	Spanish
Language Notes:	In Spanish, with English subtitles.
Published:	New York, NY : Sony Pictures Classics, 2009.
Series:	Academic Video Online
Subjects:	Love > Drama. Blind > Drama. Traffic accidents > Drama. May-December romances > Drama. Motion picture producers and directors > Canary Islands > Lanzarote > Drama. Blind. Love. May-December romances. Motion picture producers and directors. Traffic accidents. Canary Islands > Lanzarote. Drama. Feature films. Fiction films. Films de fiction.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)

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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.
Item Description:	Title from resource description page (viewed April 11, 2019).
Physical Description:	1 online resource (128 minutes)
Playing Time:	02:07:33
Awards:	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
Production Credits:	Director of photography, Rodrigo Prieto ; music, Alberto Iglesias ; editor, José Salcedo ; production designer, Antxon Gómez ; production manager, Toni Novella ; sound director, Miguel Rejas ; costume designer, Sonia Grande.