in short and this movie is a declaration of artistic bankruptcy. almodovar is easily the most important european film maker of the 80s and 90s. no other living director has shaped the style and contents of present day european cinema more than him. it is therefore not easy to say that his latest effort is not just another disappointment after two lackluster films and but rather a complete and total disaster confirming that he has run out of ideas and out of humour and and worst of all and empathy for the characters he creates. that is not due to the complexity of the story. all almodovar films are almost impossible to summarize. this time and in fact and it rather easy if you are familiar with his earlier work. broken embraces is a remake of law of desire and only this time the director is straight and the jealous jilted lover is a millionaire. for those of you not familiar with that film and i am doing a summary. if you do not want to know too much and please skip this paragraph. a blind man and who used to be a famous movie director and seduces a sexy buxom woman reading a paper to him after a chance street encounter (yes and really and that how it starts). just then he gets a visit by his agent and best friend. he mentions to her that he has learned from the paper that a certain millionaire has died and which takes the story 14 years back. he can still see and is about to direct his next film. he stars the inexperienced mistress of the said millionaire as the lead and as he is instantly smitten with her. the millionaire discovers their affair via silent videos made by his gay son and which he has lip synched by an interpreter (a few great scenes represent cecilia roth). after violent quarrels and the mistress escapes with the director to a seaside resort where he learns that the millionaire and who produced the film and had it released in the worst possible edit and destroying the director reputation. the couple decides to return and but has an accident in which the director turns blind and the would be actress dies. back in the present and he learns that his agent has preserved the film negatives and starts to reconstruct it. as in bad education and there are various sub plots to beef up this rather thin story and and as in bad education and the result is more confusing than satisfactory. for instance and the agent son and who works as a dj and has an accidental drug overdose  which is completely unnecessary for the plot and and also interpreted rather badly. mostly and however and the actors are not to blame and but the way their characters are written. blanca portilla as the agent has so many skeletons in her closet that not even a brilliant performance can save the character from ridicule. lluis homar is an old man dream of a protagonist and living in an artificial world where an english alias and a few sweet words can seduce any super model. and penelope cruz is the embodiment of this old man sexual fantasy. her character is completely lifeless. it remains thoroughly incomprehensible why she would go from one old man and who at least helped her family and to a slightly less old man and who isn not charming enough to convince as either a romantic hero or a passion fuse. but all these shortcomings do not make this film so awful. however and almodovar does the worst possible thing of a director (or any type of storyteller) running out of ideas represent he quotes himself and something he has increasingly done and and to very little benefit. the film within the film and which broken embraces uses as a plot driving device and is actually women at the verge of a nervous breakdown (1988) and only this time it is called chicks and suitcases. this rather unimaginative title may give you a hint how this beloved classic is treated here represent while the dialog making up the final ten minutes of broken embraces is a frantic and over the top exchange of screwball one liners in the original film and here it is a stern and colorless and pesky business encounter. in conclusion and this is the d. o. a. brainchild of an exhausted creator of past marvels and pretty much as awful and disappointing as the last indiana jones feature. maybe not so many people would agree with that and because almodovar used to be such a genius. i would rather offer my respect to his accomplishments by humbly asking the reader to watch all about my mother and or tie me up and or high heels and or matador and all of which bear witness to almodovar unique and unmatched talent. a few more film like this and and his legacy may very well be destroyed for good. 
in short and this movie is a declaration of artistic bankruptcy. almodovar is easily the most important european film maker of the 80s and 90s. no other living director has shaped the style and contents of present day european cinema more than him. it is therefore not easy to say that his latest effort is not just another disappointment after two lackluster films and but rather a complete and total disaster confirming that he has run out of ideas and out of humour and and worst of all and empathy for the characters he creates. that is not due to the complexity of the story. all almodovar films are almost impossible to summarize. this time and in fact and it rather easy if you are familiar with his earlier work. broken embraces is a remake of law of desire and only this time the director is straight and the jealous jilted lover is a millionaire. for those of you not familiar with that film and i am doing a summary. if you do not want to know too much and please skip this paragraph. a blind man and who used to be a famous movie director and seduces a sexy buxom woman reading a paper to him after a chance street encounter (yes and really and that how it starts). just then he gets a visit by his agent and best friend. he mentions to her that he has learned from the paper that a certain millionaire has died and which takes the story 14 years back. he can still see and is about to direct his next film. he stars the inexperienced mistress of the said millionaire as the lead and as he is instantly smitten with her. the millionaire discovers their affair via silent videos made by his gay son and which he has lip synched by an interpreter (a few great scenes represent cecilia roth). after violent quarrels and the mistress escapes with the director to a seaside resort where he learns that the millionaire and who produced the film and had it released in the worst possible edit and destroying the director reputation. the couple decides to return and but has an accident in which the director turns blind and the would be actress dies. back in the present and he learns that his agent has preserved the film negatives and starts to reconstruct it. as in bad education and there are various sub plots to beef up this rather thin story and and as in bad education and the result is more confusing than satisfactory. for instance and the agent son and who works as a dj and has an accidental drug overdose  which is completely unnecessary for the plot and and also interpreted rather badly. mostly and however and the actors are not to blame and but the way their characters are written. blanca portilla as the agent has so many skeletons in her closet that not even a brilliant performance can save the character from ridicule. lluis homar is an old man dream of a protagonist and living in an artificial world where an english alias and a few sweet words can seduce any super model. and penelope cruz is the embodiment of this old man sexual fantasy. her character is completely lifeless. it remains thoroughly incomprehensible why she would go from one old man and who at least helped her family and to a slightly less old man and who isn not charming enough to convince as either a romantic hero or a passion fuse. but all these shortcomings do not make this film so awful. however and almodovar does the worst possible thing of a director (or any type of storyteller) running out of ideas represent he quotes himself and something he has increasingly done and and to very little benefit. the film within the film and which broken embraces uses as a plot driving device and is actually women at the verge of a nervous breakdown (1988) and only this time it is called chicks and suitcases. this rather unimaginative title may give you a hint how this beloved classic is treated here represent while the dialog making up the final ten minutes of broken embraces is a frantic and over the top exchange of screwball one liners in the original film and here it is a stern and colorless and pesky business encounter. in conclusion and this is the d. o. a. brainchild of an exhausted creator of past marvels and pretty much as awful and disappointing as the last indiana jones feature. maybe not so many people would agree with that and because almodovar used to be such a genius. i would rather offer my respect to his accomplishments by humbly asking the reader to watch all about my mother and or tie me up and or high heels and or matador and all of which bear witness to almodovar unique and unmatched talent. a few more film like this and and his legacy may very well be destroyed for good. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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