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- Title
Broken Embraces' 'unearthing the dead': On amour fou, fatherhood and memory.
- Authors
Beilin, Katarzyna Olga
- Abstract
This article interprets Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces as a political parable of Spanish debates on historical memory through stories of love, parenthood and broken bones, thus commenting on politics through private life stories passed between generations. In this context I argue that the historical moment of unearthing the dead and revealing the secrets of the past corresponds to that stage in the development of family life when a young man is learning about his father's 'errors' in order to not repeat them, but at the same time to reconcile with the past and build his identity with the most beautiful images of past generations' passions.
- Subjects
BROKEN Embraces (Film); ALMODOVAR, Pedro, 1949-; COLLECTIVE memory; FATHERHOOD in motion pictures; POLITICS in motion pictures; LOVE in Motion (Music)
- Publication
Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, 2012, Vol 9, Issue 1, p35
- ISSN
1478-0488
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/shci.9.1.35_1