Broken hugs
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Broken hugs |
| Original title | Los abrazos rotos |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 129 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pedro Almodovar |
| script | Pedro Almodovar |
| production | Pedro Almodóvar Agustín Almodóvar Esther García Rodríguez Antxón Gómez |
| music | Alberto Iglesias |
| camera | Rodrigo Prieto |
| cut | José Salcedo |
| occupation | |
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Broken Hugs (Original title: Los abrazos rotos ) is a feature film by the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar from 2009. The film was screened in the same year at the Cannes International Film Festival in the competition for the main prize, the Palme d'Or , and was in the 2010 category Best Non-English Language Film nominated for the Golden Globe . It was released in Spanish cinemas on March 18, 2009, and the German theatrical release was on August 6, 2009.
action
The news of the death of the millionaire Ernesto Martel brings the memory of the past back to life for the blind screenwriter and former film director Harry Caine. When the young documentary filmmaker Ray-X shows up and wants to make a film with Harry's help, Harry reacts repulsively. His ex-girlfriend and agent Judit, who cared for him, turned down the well-paid offer when it turned out that the young man was Ernesto Martel's son. When Harry's foster son Diego ends up in the hospital after accidentally ingesting a drug cocktail, Caine decides to face the dark secrets of his past.
The story of the young Lena Rivero is told in long flashbacks . To raise money for the treatment to raise their cancer-stricken father, she first tried as already earlier occasion, as a call girl to hire. The attempt fails because her chronically jealous boss, millionaire Martel, is monitoring her steps and is the first to contact her. At his urging, Lena finally becomes his lover and in return he pays the treatment costs. Later she can convince Martel to grant her dearest wish and enable her a career as an actress. Lena is cast for the leading role in the film Women and Suitcases , which Harry Caine - still under his real name Mateo Blanco - directs. Ernesto Martel produces the film and has Lena monitored by his inhibited gay son (under the pretext of making a documentary about the shooting) with a video camera during the shooting. Indeed, Lena and Mateo soon begin a passionate affair.
After Lena confronts Martel with leaving him, he pushes her down the stairs. She was seriously injured in the process, but promised to keep silent about the incident on condition that the film is completed. Soon afterwards there is another violent argument between Lena and Martel. After her recovery, she leaves him for good and flees to Lanzarote with Mateo . In order to get revenge on the lovers, Martel arbitrarily lets the premiere of the film Women and Suitcases , with the result that the film is panned by the critics. The two lovers' attempt to start a new life suddenly ends in a car accident in which Lena dies and Mateo loses his sight.
The eternally jealous Judit confesses in the end that she let Martel buy her back then in order to publish a cut version of women and suitcases , which was only put together from the worst settings . She also reveals to her son Diego that Harry is his father. Finally, Harry Caine realizes with the help of the documentary filmed at the time by Ernesto Martel Junior that the accident was actually just a tragic event, in which Martel had no fingers in it. In order to finish with the past, he takes his real name again and now begins to subsequently create an authorized Director's Cut of women and suitcases and to rehabilitate Lena in this way.
criticism
“Melodrama, film noir and comedy, all the genres that Pedro Almodóvar loves and has made unmistakably his own with references to classics, are mixed here with a sense of style to create a film about doppelgangers, power and passion. And while there are plenty of other tangles in the present and in flashback, things only get so confused that we don't lose track. And yet the film in all its beauty, its wit and its melody lacks something that can be called a soul, something that is not only related to the cinema. "
“As complicated as the story is on paper, it develops incredibly lightly on the screen. In the elegant alternation of the timelines, a panorama of love entanglements, despair and betrayal, guilt and luck unfolds: a delicate perpetual motion machine that never denounces any of its characters, however tragicomic the situations may be again and again. And all the wrong tracks that Pedro Almodóvar may send his viewers on while gently tumbling through genres, he blurs with the most captivating relaxation - true to his alter ego Mateo, to whom he covertly grants the closing words: 'You have to lead films to the end, even blindly. '“
Influences
Alice Munro's collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001) is the background inspiration for this film.
Awards
Film composer Alberto Iglesias won the European Film Award in 2009 for the score for Torn Embraces . The film was also nominated in the categories of Best Director, Best Actress (Cruz) and European Audience Award. He also received the US Critics Award for Best Foreign Film. Most recently, the film was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 2010.
Audio film
In 2009, the German Hörfilm GGmbH created an audio description of the film for television broadcasts and DVD publication, which was nominated for the German Audio Film Award in 2010 . The image descriptions are spoken by Uta Maria Torp.
Web links
- Official Website (Spanish)
- Official German website
- Broken Embraces in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- “A kind of God” - Interview with Pedro Almodóvar in der Zeit , No. 33 of August 6, 2009, p. 37
- Torn hugs in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ^ Festival de Cannes: Broken Embraces . In: festival-cannes.com . Retrieved August 4, 2009.
- ↑ Source Golden Globe Nominations 2010 , Die Welt, accessed January 21, 2012.
- ↑ Pilar Somacarrera: A Spanish Passion for the Canadian Short Story: Reader Responses to Alice Munro's Fiction in Web 2.0 Open Access , in: Made in Canada, Read in Spain: Essays on the Translation and Circulation of English-Canadian Literature Open Access , edited by Pilar Somacarrera, de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, pp. 129-144, p. 143, ISBN 978-83-7656-017-5
- ↑ Broken hugs in the audio film database of Hörfilm e. V.
- ↑ 8th German Audio Film Award 2010