Broken Embraces: Almodóvar's Hitchcockian Love Letter to Cinema
In "Broken Embraces," Pedro Almodóvar doesn't so much break new ground as he refines the soil he has long cultivated. Following masterworks like "Talk to Her" and "Volver," this film represents not a revolution but an elegant culmination of the Spanish auteur's preoccupations, filtered through a distinctly Hitchcockian lens.
The film unfolds as a complex origami of narrative...