Title: "Broken Embraces"
Director: Pedro Almodova
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Blanca Portillo
Genre: Plot
Release time: May 2009
Reader: Bai Xiaoding
Recommendation index: ★★★★☆☆ One
sentence comment: Although it is a male perspective, it is still a story of a woman. It is still a feminist film
. People who are familiar with Almodovar’s work will immediately think of it. His "Bad Education" is also the interweaving of reality and the past, and the dislocation of time and space, and the plot is also driven by memories. Unlike the former, which focuses on marginalized people, except for the former director who is blind, all the roles are normal this time, and there are few conflicts and confrontations.
Without the ambiguous sentiment that "Say to Her", nor the colorful tones of "All About My Mother", and there is no "Return" that maximizes the intricate relationships and sentiments among family female members. "Mistress's Lover" is enough to sum up the plot-this is a story about love, betrayal and desire.
Familiar themes, old-fashioned content, repetitive methods, the only change, the improvement of men’s status, and even replacing women as the narrator of things, although the perspective has changed, the methods and elements used are all that Amosiva is best at Yes, it also shows women's self-identification, so it is difficult to make people feel like they are immediately bright. Therefore, many people only see a long, tangled, and boring story of polygamous love. In fact, this is not the whole story.
The film takes the form of a play-in-the-play. It has been renamed Harry Ken. Matteo, who has become a writer, tells us about a melancholy sentiment that happened when he was shooting a movie in the past. There are not only the memory clips of the director and actress Lina running away for love, but also the shooting and performance of the "Girl and the Suitcase" work. There are also images in the lens of the wealthy businessman's son who is responsible for monitoring the actress. Selected from the movie From the shooting process, to the malicious editing, to the failed premiere, to the restoration, from different perspectives, we will analyze this section of "how a movie is made" in an all-round way.
Putting aside the grievances between the protagonists, the film uses on-site recording, director's recollection, and after-the-fact confession to interweave a complex relationship between the agent, director, actor, and producer, and the success or failure of a work It is often the result of many factors. It can be said that behind the many appearances and distractions that disturb the emotions, it is the exposure of the entire film industry rules. This is an invisible increase compared to Almodovar’s previous works that were limited to the personal feelings of the characters. It has a lot of tolerance, so Almodovar, who personally participated in the screenwriting, called this atypical female work "a love letter to the movie."
Color and eroticism have always been typical signs in Almodovar's works. There are not so many vulgar and bright colors in "Broken Embraces", but the erotic shots still exist. For Almodovar, these shots can be as natural as eating and sleeping. Rather than trying to cover them, they would be frank and magnanimous. Of direct.
The movie did not choose to end in that sensational and touching hug. The last ten minutes showed the clips of "Girl and the Suitcase" after Mateo's re-editing, which is the most shining part of the movie.
This humorous, ironic story full of black joy is actually Almodova’s tribute to his work "A Woman on the Brink of Spiritual Breakdown"-summarizing himself in an absurd way, paying tribute to the classic era, only Almodovar dares to show his love to the movie in this way. It can be said that "Broken Embrace" is the movie that incorporates Almodovar's personal emotions the most. It is not so much a love letter to the movie, it is not a love letter. A love letter from Modova to himself. Although it is hard to be amazing, it is still wonderful, and Amosiva's feelings for the movie cannot be ignored.
I believe that the reason why the film is called "Broken Embraces" is precisely because the writer’s fragmented memories strung the whole story, and also symbolized the beautiful but ruthlessly broken love between him and the actress. The identity may be changed, but the memories are only In the fragment, the lover can disappear from the fragrance, but the image has transcended emotion and survived forever.
Review of Almodova’s award-winning works:
In 1988, "A Woman on the Brink of Mental Breakdown" won the Venice Film Festival's Best Screenplay Award and the European Film Festival's Best Young Film Award; in
1991, "High Heels" won the French Caesar Award for Best Foreign Language Film Award;
In 1999, "Everything About My Mother" won the Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film Award;
2002, "Tell Her" won the Oscar for Best Screenplay Award and the British Film Academy Award Best Non-English Film, Best Screenplay Award, European Film Awards Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay Award;
In 2006, "Return" won the Cannes Film Festival Best Screenplay Award, and the National Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director Award at the European Film Awards.
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