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Broken Embraces at Cannes 2009 review
telegraph.co.uk - 5/19/2009
Broken Embraces at Cannes 2009 review
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Spain: Pedro Almodóvar; Penelope Cruz Lluis Homar. Rating
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 ... (more) Cannes film festival: Almodóvar's Broken Embraces reels ...

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Broken Embraces Movie Review - Read Variety's Analysis Of The Film Broken Embraces
variety.com - 5/19/2009
Broken Embraces Movie Review - Read Variety's Analysis Of The Film Broken Embraces
— variety.com — New Int'l. Release Broken Embraces Los abrazos rotos (Spain) Partly a film about films and partly a... film about love, Pedro Almodovar's “Broken Embraces” can't quite decide where its allegiances lie. A restless, rangy and frankly enjoyable ... (more) Broken Embraces Movie Review - Read Variety's Analysis ...

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entertainment.timesonline.co.uk - 5/19/2009
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 ... (more) Broken Embraces at the Cannes Film Festival

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In Contention:  ‘Broken Embraces,’ ‘Vincere’ bow at Cannes

FilmoFilia:  Caness 2009: Broken Embraces Trailer, Photos, Poster And Reviews

indieWIRE Recent:  ROUND UP V: Pedro on Pedro, “Vincere” Premieres, and Sundance in Cannes

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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." ...

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Going Cap in Cannes
guardian.co.uk 5/20/2009 — After taking in the latest from Almodóvar and Tarantino, Xan Brooks ventures up the coast from the Croisette, and steps into a parallel universe Two films about films in the space of 24 hours: this must be the "Directors' Cannes" we've all been told about. Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces is ...
Cannes Day Five: Tarantino, Amenabar, Von Trier
weblogs.variety.com 5/22/2009 — Still to come this week: the return of three Cannes auteurs: Pedro Almodovar, Quentin Tarantino and Terry Gilliam. Early reviews of the Spanish director’s Broken Embraces , which stars muse Penelope Cruz, are modestly upbeat, while Gilliam’s The ...
Cannes 09: Pedro Almodovar's 'Broken Embraces,' Is Admirable, But Ultimately A Weak Genre Excercise — :: The Playlist ::
Spanish éminence grise filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar 's " Broken Embraces " is his 17 th feature in a stellar, 30-plus year career, the third film to play in-competition and fourth to screen at the Cannes Film Festival. Despite his oeuvre par excellence, he's never won the Palme d'Or , but ...
Almodovar: Cinema is an Irrational Passion — indieWIRE Recent
“Broken Embraces” (Abrazos Rotos) the new film by Pedro Almodovar is premiering today at the Cannes Film Festival. This essay, entitled “Declaration of Love,” is one of twelve written by Almodovar discussing his new film and its influences. Cinema plays a very important role in all my films. I ...
What the UK papers say about the second week at Cannes — Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk
Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus fails to dazzle, Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon is a gift for critics and Tarantino's return to Cannes wins guarded praise Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon is a powerful, if somewhat austere portrait of social breakdown, Pedro Almodóvar's ...
'A year of Prophets and Basterds, scandals and stars' — Film | guardian.co.uk
Cannes film festival: Xan Brooks leads a critics roundtable to discuss the highs and lows, the sublime to the ridiculous, of this year's festival, before sailing into the sunset
Cannes press review: French papers swoon over Cruz, Gainsbourg and Cantona — Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk
But it was Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds that made the most noise, not much of it good As Cannes seems to be more about personalities than the art of film, French critics of the quasi-popular dailies (Le Monde, Libération, L'Humanité, Le Figaro), like their British counterparts, ...
Penelope Cruz at the Broken Embraces premiere in Cannes — Film Gecko
Every time I see Penelope Cruz , she just gets more and more beautiful. And her dress in the photo is stunning. It’s a pic of her, along with Pedro Almodovar and Blanco Portillo, at the premiere of their film “Broken Embraces” at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France. The story ...
Seven days in Cannes — Film | guardian.co.uk
Look back on some of the pictures, premieres and parties making waves on the Croisette
Pedro! — indieWIRE Recent
Pedro Almodovar welcomed guests to the Plages des Palmes beachside bash for his new film, “Broken Embraces” last night here in Cannes. The exclusive beachside club that is built for the festival was transformed into what looked like a cabaret for the party, including framed images from the movie ...
Why Tarantino is a real enfant terrible at Cannes — Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk
Inglourious Basterds feels like the work of a bratty child. No wonder, when there's a whiff of the schoolyard about Cannes There's something of the school canteen at recess about the Cannes film festival. And not just the long queues and iffy smell. What takes you back is the daring and the ...
Press review: US papers ask, 'Can we do without Cannes?' — Film | guardian.co.uk
The jamboree on the Croisette appears to have provided the excuse for US journalists to ask, 'Can we do without Cannes?' The Cannes film festival provokes mixed reactions from the American press. To some, it's a business-oriented industry summit; to others a quintessentially European showcase ...
Cannes Roundup: Day Six — The Screengrab
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“Broken” Record: Almodovar’s Latest Repeats His Greatest Hits — indieWIRE Recent
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 ...
Cannes 2009: Broken Embraces — Total Film News
Pedro Almodovar has made a solid if unspectacular return to Cannes with Broken Embraces. It’s the Spanish auteur’s longest, priciest movie to date – yet it’s hard to shake the sense that you’ve seen a lot of it before. Soaked in self-reference, there’s ...