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Almodovar, Penelope give men their due in Embraces

AP, Cannes
Expect more male characters from Pedro Almodovar, whose credits include such female-cantered films as "All About My Mother," "Volver" and "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown."
With his latest Penelope Cruz collaboration, the Cannes Film Festival entry "Broken Embraces," Almodovar strikes some equality between the sexes and says he plans to feature more men In future films.
"There are as many male parks as there are female parts,” Almodovar said before the premiere Tuesday night of "Broken Embraces." "So it's perfectly balanced.
"So far, my male characters intimidated me somewhat, because for a male character, I had to take myself as a reference," said Almodovar, who won Academy Awards for foreign-language film with "All About My Mother" and original screenplay for "Talk to Her." "But now 1 feel less and less intimidated, and so now, you're going to find more and more male characters in my films."
At the heart of "Broken Embraces" is a tragic love triangle involving film director Mateo (Lluis Homar), actress Lena (Cruz) and her jealous sugar daddy (Jose Luis Gomez), a wealthy businessman producing their movie.
Their story is told through flashbacks as Mateo, now a blind screenwriter who has sought to block out his past, chronicles a furtiveTiff air tharends in cat Astro -phe? The dark melodrama is sweetened with typical Almodovar comic touches, including a film within the film. This consists of snippets of a comedy Mateo is shooting that was inspired by "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," the 1988 film that helped establish Almodovar outside Spain.
Almodovar spoke of his intense directing style, saying he'll do anything to make a scene real, “acting out all the roles on stage, which the actors think is really funny."
For her fourth film with Almodovar, Cruz came to "Broken Embraces" after shooting Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," a Cannes premiere a year ago that earned her the supportingactress Oscar. The two directors vary
wildly in their work styles, said Cruz, who can spend months on an Almodovar film but shot her Allen role in just three and a half weeks.
"They could not be more different," said Cruz, who earned her first Oscar nomination for "Volver" and also worked with Almodovar in "All About My Mother" and "Live Flesh."
"With Pedro, we always rehearsed for a long time. Woody doesn't like to rehearse. Maybe on the day we re shooting he will do one rehearsal just to see the positions of the camera, but he really likes everybody to improvise . "
While "Broken Embraces" gives equal time to men, Almodovar said women remain the stronger gender in his sto-
ries. The Spanish filmmaker said that, until about age 8, he grew up almost exclusively in the company of his mother and other women, a generation tempered by hard post-war conditions in the 1950s.