Broken Embraces Quotes

  • Diego: When you were waiting at the roundabout, for a car to pass on your left, Lena and you kissed.

    Mateo Blanco: We kissed? I don't remember that.

    Diego: It's a normal kiss, the kind couples give each other out of habit.

    Mateo Blanco: The last kiss.

    Diego: Yes. Lena didn't die in your arms, like you'd dreamed, but the last sensation she took from this world was your mouth.

  • [first lines]

    [in Spanish, quoting English subtitles]

    Modelo: What's your name?

    Mateo Blanco: Harry Caine.

    [voiceover]

    Mateo Blanco: I used to be called Mateo and I was a film director. I was always tempted by the idea of being someone else, as well as myself. Living one's life wasn't enough, so I invented a pseudonym, Harry Caine, an adventurer who, as fate would have it, became a writer. I had him sign all the scripts and stories I wrote. For years, Mateo Blanco and Harry Caine shared the same body, mine. But a moment came when suddenly I could only be Harry Caine. I became my pseudonym. A self-made writer made by himself. There was just one unforseen detail. Harry Caine would be a blind writer.

  • [last lines]

    [in Spanish, quoting English subtitles]

    Ray X: That's what we've got re-edited.

    Mateo Blanco: Do you think it's worth carrying on, or is it crazy?

    Diego: What? I pissed myself laughing. I'm dying to see what happens.

    Judit García: It's wonderful, Mateo!

    Diego: It's hilarious. You have to re-release it.

    Mateo Blanco: No, what matters is to finish it. Films have to be finished, even if you do it blindly.

Extended Reading
  • Hildegard 2022-04-23 07:03:32

    It is said that the ending is a self tribute

  • Damon 2022-03-21 09:02:43

    I have seen several films of Director Ah, except for everything about my mother, none of them shocked me. But there is one thing in common: after each sad story, there is a very special touch. In the words of a friend: that is the mercy of the master. Nod... I have always had no feelings for Xiao Lu, do I think she is a beautiful beauty who is crying ghosts and gods, she can look at it when she is dressed up, and if it is not good, it is the same thing~ I am moved by this film. On the contrary, it is the male protagonist's economic man, his former lover's current manager, who has cared for him for a lifetime, but never wanted him to know his son's life experience. In another segment, the director said after a heavy passage of the past: I want to hear Jeanne Moreau's voice. Hehe, it seems that I still have a consensus with A Dao