Broken Embraces

A Madrid apartment in late autumn, the hum of a manual typewriter lingering. A man who no longer uses his real name taps out the past—his last film, his lost lover, the woman who wore red. Scissors click through film reels. Now his fingers trace the edges of memory. A blind writer stitches the fractured frames of his greatest regret together.

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Pedro Almodóvar directed Broken Embraces in 2009. See Pedro Almodóvar's full filmography, where to start with Pedro Almodóvar, or where to go after you've seen everything by Pedro Almodóvar.

Broken Embraces was released in 2009 (ES original-language production), with a runtime of 127 minutes.