Saturday, March 12, 2011
FILM BIZ
Today's Almodovar film is the last in the series
Los abrazos rotos /
Broken Embraces (2009)
although I am tempted to get Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown since this film, about making movies, refers to the plot in that film.
Or parts of it.
This one is a who done it and why and has tricks of memory and a blind film director and lots of Almadovar bits of fun. Great photography. Interesting and mysterious plot. All of it.
Almodovar loves movies and there is a lot of evidence of that in this film. In one scene, a young man sifts through the films of the movie director and names names. Favorities.
Another thing is that he puts in themes that are right out of genré films. In this case the blind artist. There are others.
Penelope Cruz leads the cast of Almodovar regulars. I do not understand how these people can appear over and over again in different of Pedro's films and always seem different and not a trace of their past work remains. The magic of good direction and great acting.
I will give this one a 5 out of Netflix5. He can't seem to miss. I did see it before but didn't remember the details.
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