I’m not sure if I told you, but as a teenager, I spent a lot of time in Spain. Almost every holiday, three or four months a year, for five or six years. I love it there, utterly and completely; I really think of it as my spiritual home. And Pedro Almodovar has long been…
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I know I’m supposed to love Pedro Almodovar, and I’m meant to have a man-crush on Penelope Cruth. But with Broken Embraces, honestly, I just can bring myself to. It is of course a beautifully made masterpiece of happy beginnings that implode erratically, of loves and jealousies and secrets and simmering Spanish passions in a…
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