BROKEN EMBRACES: ANOTHER ALMODOVAR ARTWORK

Pedro Almodóvar has a magic touch and he proves it once again with this film. Lluis Homar is Harry Caine, a blind writer with a complicated past. He is confronted with a mysterious visitor who sends him back 14 years in his past to review the heartbreaking events that changed him forever. Penelope Cruz is heavenly as Lena, an aspiring actress and alluring woman who steals Harry's heart. Actually, she steals Mateo's heart, but that's another story.

It is clever and sensual and lovely and long as hell, but I couldn't even try to suggest where an edit could have been made. As always, Almodóvar gives us a complex drama full of colorful and complicated characters who hold our attention. I am not a fan of reading captions because the screen is full of his work, the locations, the actors the details and I want to take it all in. Even with the reading, this film hypnotized and certainly entertained me.
Big bite: I love Pedro Almodóvar and this is another delight in a long line of greatness.