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Broken Embraces

Broken Embraces Sat 4/03 Portland Portland Mus

2010


April 2010


Saturday 3 April 2010

Broken Embraces

Sat 3 Apr, 2 pm. Seven Congress Square, Portland, 04101. 207-775-6148, info@portlandmuseum.org. Portland Museum of Art - [events]

Friday, April 2, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, April 3, 2 p.m. Sunday, April 4, 2 p.m. Rated R A man writes, lives, and loves in darkness. Fourteen years before, he was in a brutal car crash on the island of Lanzarote. In the accident, he not only lost his sight, he also lost Lena, the love of his life. This man uses two names: Harry Caine, a playful pseudonym with which he signs his literary works, stories and scripts, and Mateo Blanco, his real name, with which he lives and signs the film he directs. After the accident, Mateo Blanco reduces himself to his pseudonym, Harry Caine. If he can’t direct films, he can only survive with the idea that Mateo Blanco died on Lanzarote with his beloved Lena.

In the present day, Harry Caine lives thanks to the scripts he writes and to the help he gets from his faithful former production manager, Judit García, and from her son Diego, his secretary, typist, and guide. Since he decided to live and tell stories, Harry is an active, attractive blind man who has developed all his other senses in order to enjoy life, on a basis of irony and self-induced amnesia. He has erased from his biography any trace of his first identity, Mateo Blanco. One night Diego has an accidental interaction of recreational drugs, and Harry takes care of him (his mother, Judit, is out of Madrid and they decide not to tell her anything so as not to alarm her). During the first nights of his convalescence, Diego asks him about the time when he answered to the name of Mateo Blanco, after a moment of astonishment Harry can’t refuse, and he tells Diego what happened 14 years before with the idea of entertaining him, just as a father tells his little child a story so that he’ll fall asleep.

Starring Penélope Cruz, Blanca Portillo, and Lluís Homar
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar, 2010
RT: 128 min.

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