Teaser for Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Broken Embraces’

Penelope Cruz is a given, though most of the details surrounding Embraces have been kept close to the vest.  This was Almodóvar’s way of announcing the production on his blog:

The other day I watched “Ascenseur pour l’echafaud” again, one of the first films of Louis Malle and Jeanne Moreau. The originality of the film and its aroma of romance and despair are still intact half a century later.

At the end, when the characters of Moreau and her unfortunate lover Maurice Ronet are cornered, condemned to live in different prisons, some photos appear of the couple in their good moments, embracing. Jeanne Moreau’s voiceover talks of those photographed embraces as something eternal, something that no one will be able to break and that will remain forever, while she will waste away in prison.

My next film, “Broken Embraces” talks about that kind of embrace.

The picture is slated for a November U.S. debut. (via The Film Experience)