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Almodóvar is cherished worldwide for his movies' brio and wisdom, but the Spanish writer-director, who turned 60 in September, has been preoccupied with death and mourning in many of his prime films. He killed off important characters in the first reels of All About My Mother and Volver, then examined how the survivors coped with their loss or the urge for revenge. An underlying love for the dead or near dead stokes the main figures in Talk to Her and Volver. In each case the grieving is natural, respectful, votive. Also volcanic...
...first minutes of Broken Embraces announce the death of its star attraction, the actress Lena, played by Cruz. In the 14 years since her death, Lena has been deeply mourned by her lover Mateo (Lluís Homar), a movie director who was blinded in the same car crash that killed her. He now works under the playfully turbulent pseudonym Harry Caine, as in hurricane. He needed a new name, he says, because the real Mateo died with Lena. But now he learns of the death of Ernesto (José Luis Gómez), a wealthy businessman who financed Lena...
...there any chance you will try action movies? -Angela Bohn, Zanesville, Ohio I would love to try an action film at some point, but not too soon. I think that can be a kiss of death. There's got to be a real role that I can bring something unique and specific to, a way for me to do it believably. Until then, I think it would just come across as weird...
...Ozunu clan discovers Mika’s research and only a sudden appearance of Raizo saves her from certain death-by-ninja. The two plots then merge and the rest of the film is little more than a dramatic chase scene between Raizo and Mika, dozens of ninjas, and hundreds of Europol officers...
...mesmerizing as the movie’s opening. While these scenes are some compensation for the rest of the film, they too lack suspense and intrigue. The interactions between Raizo and his beloved at the start of the film are so laughably flat that his attempts at revenging her death fail to inspire even a shred of empathy. Mika’s motivations for tracking down the Ozunu are even less clear. Thus, each fight is reduced to a lovely but meaningless dance that is devoid of contextual excitement...