Broken Embraces Blu-ray Movie
HomeBroken Embraces Blu-ray Movie 
Los abrazos rotos / Zerrissene UmarmungenUniversum Film | 2009 | 127 min | Rated FSK-12 | Feb 05, 2010
Movie rating
7.3 | / 10 |
Blu-ray rating
| Users |  | 0.0 |
| Reviewer | | 0.0 |
| Overall | | 0.0 |
Overview
Broken Embraces (2009)
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 used 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 signed the films he directed. 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 Diego, her son, 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 accident 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 fourteen years before with the idea of entertaining him, just as a father tells his little child a story so that he'll fall asleep. The story of Mateo, Lena, Judit and Ernesto Martel is a story of amour fou, dominated by fatality, jealously, the abuse of power, treachery and a guilt complex. A moving and terrible story, the most expressive image of which is the photo of two lovers embracing, torn into a thousand pieces.
Starring: Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo, José Luis Gómez, Rubén OchandianoDirector: Pedro Almodóvar
| Drama | 100% |
| Foreign | 78% |
| Romance | 38% |
| Melodrama | 13% |
| Thriller | Insignificant |
Specifications
Video
Video codec: VC-1
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Audio
German: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Spanish: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Subtitles
German
Discs
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Playback
Region B (A, C untested)
Review
Broken Embraces Blu-ray Movie Review
No review exists for this particular release, however, it exists for the other following regions/countries:
Broken Embraces Blu-ray Movie
Los abrazos rotos
20th Century Fox | 2009 | 127 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Feb 01, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
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 used 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 signed the films he directed. 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 Diego, her son, 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 accident 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 fourteen years before with the idea of entertaining him, just as a father tells his little child a story so that he'll fall asleep. The story of Mateo, Lena, Judit and Ernesto Martel is a story of amour fou, dominated by fatality, jealously, the abuse of power, treachery and a guilt complex. A moving and terrible story, the most expressive image of which is the photo of two lovers embracing, torn into a thousand pieces.
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Foreign / Melodrama
Broken Embraces Blu-ray Movie
Los Abrazos Rotos
Sony Pictures | 2009 | 128 min | Rated R | Mar 16, 2010 | Martin Liebman
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 used 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 signed the films he directed. 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 Diego, her son, 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 accident 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 fourteen years before with the idea of entertaining him, just as a father tells his little child a story so that he'll fall asleep. The story of Mateo, Lena, Judit and Ernesto Martel is a story of amour fou, dominated by fatality, jealously, the abuse of power, treachery and a guilt complex. A moving and terrible story, the most expressive image of which is the photo of two lovers embracing, torn into a thousand pieces.
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Foreign / Melodrama
Similar titles
Similar titles you might also like
(Still not reliable for this title)
The Skin I Live In
La piel que habito / Die Haut, in der ich wohne
2011
Volver
Zurückkehren
2006
De rouille et d'os
Rust and Bone / Der Geschmack von Rost und Knochen
2012
Die süße Haut
La peau douce
1964
Lust, Caution
色，戒 / Gefahr und Begierde
2007
Manons Rache
Manon des sources / Manon of the Spring
1986
Julieta
2016
La Mala Educación
Schlechte Erziehung
2004
Un Couteau dans le coeur
Messer im Herz
2018
Die Taschendiebin
아가씨 / Ah-ga-ssi / The Handmaiden
2016
Drei Farben: Rot
Trois couleurs: Rouge / Three Colors: Red
1994
Tristana
1970
Der andere Liebhaber
L'amant double / Double Lover
2017
... und immer lockt das Weib
...And God Created Woman / Et Dieu... créa la femme
1956
Le jour se lève
Daybreak / Der Tag bricht an
1939
Alles über meine Mutter
Todo sobre mi madre / All About My Mother
1999
Jules und Jim
Jules et Jim / Jules and Jim
1962
I am Love
Io sono l'amore
2009
Pioneer
Pionér
2013
Amour
Liebe
2012