"The Room Next Door is Almodovar’s 25th film and the followup to Parallel Mothers (2021), which also premiered at Venice and won the festival’s best actress award for Penélope Cruz, Almodóvar’s most frequent on-screen collaborator"
"Broken Embraces
(Spanish: Los abrazos rotos) is a 2009 Spanish film written, produced, and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Led by an ensemble cast consisting of many Almodóvar regulars, it stars Lluís Homar as a blind Madrilenian screenwriter who recalls his tragic love for Lena,
played by Penélope Cruz"
"Inspired by darkness and by a photo of a couple that Almodóvar took of El Golfo beach in Lanzarote in the late 1990s, the film serves as an homage to filmmaking, cinema and its various film genres. Stylistically, the film has been described as a hybrid of film noir and melodrama.
Thematically, Broken Embraces addresses themes like voyeurism, repression, prostitution, death, vengeance, fixation, illness, and drugs."
"Broken Embraces was one of the films competing for the Palme d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. "
"The film includes an original soundtrack album composed entirely by Alberto Iglesias, which was released in Spain on CD format to coincide with the film's release. The film also includes two English tracks from American artists: "Robot Oeuf" by Uffie,
and a cover of Michael Hurley's "Werewolf"
by Cat Power."
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