FRI JAN 5, 2024 10:00 PM BROKEN EMBRACES $8.00 (member); $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | ‘Rodrigo Prieto: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’ Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILM: In Spanish with English subtitles. A luminous Penélope Cruz stars as an actress who sacrifices everything for true love in BROKEN EMBRACES, Pedro Almodóvar’s acclaimed tale of sex, secrets and cinema. When her father becomes gravely ill, beautiful Lena (Cruz) consents to a relationship with her boss Ernesto (José Luis Gómez), a very wealthy, much-older man who pays for her father’s hospitalization and provides her a lavish lifestyle. But Lena’s dream is to act and soon she falls for the director of her first film – a project bankrolled by her husband to keep her near. Upon his discovery of the affair, Ernesto stops at nothing to ruin Lena’s happiness. FORMAT: 35mm DISTRIBUTOR: Sony COUNTRY: Spain