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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown</title>
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		<title>Cannes 2009: Pedro Almodóvar&#8217;s BROKEN EMBRACES</title>
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Broken Embraces: Pedro Almodóvar on the set (top); Penélope Cruz as the heroine (bottom).
In the mystery-melodrama, a  director and his female star begin a passionate love affair that leads to all sorts of trouble.

Wendy Ide in   The [London] Times:
&#34;Certainly, it is unmistakably an Almodovar film. Nobody else does   richly-textured melodrama quite like him; nobody else can encourage such   overwrought performances without unbalancing the film; nobody else shoots   Penélope Cruz with a reverence which borders on fan-worship. But what’s   missing here is the warmth and emotional honesty that infuses Almodovar’s   most successful features. What’s missing is, arguably, Almodovar himself.&#34;
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Eric Kohn in indieWIRE:
&#34;Pedro Almodovar offers nothing new in his [...]]]></description>
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