News > Almodovar and Cruz to Make Los abrazos rotos

Written by David Morgan

Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's next film will be Los abrazos rotos, which he describes as a "four-way tale of amour fou, shot in the style of 50s American film noir at its most hard-boiled." Penelope Cruz, Blanca Portillo and Lluis Homar will star.

According to Variety, filming will begin in Spain next Spring. The director is still finishing the script.

The film is set in the 90s and present day. It will mix stylistic references to films such as Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place and Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful with signature Almodovar themes: "Fate, the mystery of creation, guilt, unscrupulous power, the eternal search of fathers for sons, and sons for fathers," Almodovar told Variety.

He elaborated, "Penelope will exchange the era's aprons, cardigans and the hairdos for an updated look, but one that mixes the transparent turbulence of Gene Tierney and the mistreated, challenging beauty of Linda Darnell in Otto Preminger's Fallen Angel.

It's practically like he's parodying himself, but doing a classy thoughtful job of it.