Penelope Cruz, who earned an Oscar Nomination on her last outing with Almodovar ('VOLVER', 2006), is attached to the new project titled 'BROKEN EMBRACES' (or 'ABRAZOS ROTOS').
According to the Hollywood Reporter today, the film, which Almodovar also penned, will be "in the style of a hard-boiled, '50s American film noir." To which I say, HELL FUCKING YES!!
It'll be just like DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Billy Wilder, 1944), except Neff and Keyes will be openly gay and boning on screen, and Phyllis will probably turn out to be a tranny named Phil. And they're all addicted to heroin. AND, one of them is trying to get a Double Indemnity Clause out of an AIDS death. ...on a train, or something. EITHER WAY IT'S GAY! Oh, the drama.....
Seriously though, I'm stoked. The idea that Almodovar (a true master of melodrama, betrayal, twisted identity conflicts, and also a man with what I consider to be one of the greatest aesthetic touches of any living [and working] director,) is creating an American Noir influenced film gives me new-found reason to wish that I worked in film and not the soul-sucking television industry.
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