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Penelope Cruz in her sexiest role ever, Broken Embraces

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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 uses 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 signs the film he directs. After the accident, Mateo Blanco reduces himself to his pseudonym, Harry Caine. If he cant 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 cant 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 hell 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.
PENÉLOPE CRUZ
After having appeared in Live Flesh, All About my Mother and Volver, Penélope has worked again with Pedro Almodóvar.
After studying acting at Cristina Rotas school, she made her debut while still a teenager in Jamón, Jamón (1992). In this film she already showed an extraordinary capacity for playing the common characters which would bring her such success in the future, and also attracted the attention of the most important Spanish directors with whom she would later work. Bigas Luna in the above mentioned Jamón, Jamón and Volaverunt, Fernando Trueba in Belle Epoque and La niña de tus ojos (for which she received the Goya for Best Actress), Alejandro Amenábar in Abre los ojos or Agustín Díaz Yanes in Sin noticias de Dios. She has also had a more than notable international career which includes The Hi‐Lo Country (Stephen Frears), All the Pretty Horses (Billy Bob Thornton), Blow (Ted Demme), Captain Corellis Mandolin (John Madden), Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe), Non ti muovere (Sergio Castellito), The Good Night (Jake Paltrow), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen) or Nine (Rob Marshall).
With Non ti muovere, by Sergio Castellito, she won the David di Donatello award and the European Film Academys Peoples Choice Award for Best Actress. The New York Times selected her, for that film, as one of the ten best female performances of the year. With Volver she won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Festival, ex aequo with the other actresses in the film. She also won the EFA and the Goya and was nominated for the Academy Award, the Golden Globe and the BAFTA awards.
Her performance in Vicky Cristina Barcelona has earned her more than ten awards and a an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
She doesnt discount the possibility of directing in the future and in the meantime she is experimenting with photography, one of her favourite pastimes.
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  • i love her

  • Penelope Cruz lookes like an ostrich! :-))

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  • @Natascha1618

    wtf?

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    The most talented woman on our planet, also very beautiful, she is the woman of my dream...

  • my dream...

  • Empartrice, regina, soltana! Esta es una de sus pelis mas fabulosas! LA QUIEERO Q TALENTO!

  • @Natascha1618

    exactly! she looks like an ostrich.......LOL!

    Dam ugly

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