i have never be a huge fan of almodovar and but and generally and i have always find something to enjoy in his film . unfortunately and i have more trouble find something to enjoy in broken embrace then i would normally think i would . i find the big failure in broken embrace to be the character and the lack of depth they display . the film be essentially a love story and one that be tragic and and one that want to involve the viewer in their story . i find this problematic from the beginning . in the opening scene and our hero the director or screenwriter and mateo and be have sex with a very attractive young woman whom he just meet . his agent come in a the woman bashfully leave . in the opening scene and our hero the director or screenwriter and mateo and be have sex with a very attractive young woman whom he just meet . his agent come in and and roll her eye and a the woman bashfully leave . mateo babble something about need to enjoy life a the only thing he have leave . have be blind in a tragic car accident that also kill his true love lena and play by penelope cruz and the viewer might buy into to this notion except the rest of the film really never illustrate why lena be the love of his life or any depth to his character or any other . cruz play lena the mistress to an industrialist name ernesto martel . from the outset and their union be rather a pathetic one and a martel clutch jealousy to lena and and lena avoids uncertainty of be on her own by stay with the much old martel . to skip ahead and martel finance a film for mateo so he can keep tab on the star of the film and lena . naturally and without any back story and lena and mateo fall in love . and and in almodovar world it really be that simple . mateo and in the opening scene and have sex with a sexy young woman and now mateo fall in love with lena and later it reveal he have a son with his agent after their love affair . her son respond to this information with a laugh and an and oh and well . again and no depth and no understanding for any of these character and it all just happens . from the beginning of the film to the end and i get no depth of emotion from mateo . he be flat and and doesn not act much different from one scene to the next . the one scene i do enjoy be when film producer and martel and be watch video footage his son record under the guise of do a documentary of mateo . there be nice a moment of martel watch obsessively a a lip reading confirm his bad fear . later and lena confronts martel a he watch the footage and speak her part out loud match the video footage of her lip a she talk . some quite brilliant moment . rather contrived and but still really fascinate . unfortunately and for me and the rest of the film leave me rather bore . i couldn not care about these character or their situation and so no amount of cleverness on almodovar part can make up for this lack of depth . i think if youre a fan of his work you will enjoy this movie and but if youre like me and in between and then you will find it lack .