Review of Broken Embraces (2009) by Luca D — 09 Mar 2015
It's Almodovar, so I liked it, but it has a lot of problems. While he often merges clashing styles successfully, this time the broad soap elements (especially in the non-Cruz acting) clash with the general sense of realism (in the depiction of things like filmmaking and blindness), which both clash with the attempts at Hitchcockian suspense, which doesn't come off at all because the plot doesn't have a whole lot of stakes.
Add to that a bunch of momentum-killing exposition and a bland, generic visual style, and you have a movie that never quite gets off the ground.
This review of Broken Embraces (2009) was written by Luca D on 09 Mar 2015.
Broken Embraces has generally received positive reviews.
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