Lush wardrobe colors, a Penelope Cruz being carried around by multiple older men, and a wall littered with former “flames”. You can’t get much out of 35 seconds, and I’m not about to make some sort of analysis here before just appreciating the images and score, but for what it is worth, Pedro Almodóvar‘s Broken Embraces is looking to do exactly what Todd Haynes‘ did with his homage to Douglas Sirk – bring the 50’s to the forefront. To be released in Spain well before Cannes, I’m looking forward to catching this one on the Croisette.
Broken Embraces is a 1990s-set drama is a four-way tale of amour-fou, shot in the style of ’50s American film noir at its most hard-boiled, and will mix references to works like Nicholas Ray’s IN A LONELY PLACE and Vincente Minnelli’s THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, with signature Almodovar themes such as Fate, the mystery of creation, guilt, unscrupulous power, the eternal search of fathers for sons, and sons for fathers.
