Actividad de la noche del miércoles – “Los abrazos rotos” por Pedro Almodóvar / Wednsday’s night activity – “Broken hugs” by Pedro Almodóvar

Five days a week The Language School Delengua organises after class activities. Wednesday is always “a cinema day”. On the 25^th of March in the evening, students went to see the newest film from Spain’s most famous director, Pedro Almodovar, accompanied by a teacher.

“Broken hugs” is a moving story about a blind filmmaker Mateo Blanco, who 14 years earlier lost his sight and the love of his life, Lena, in as brutal car accident. The action takes places mostly in the present-day, showing how Mateo, who since the accident has called himself Harry Caine, is looked after by his friend Judith and her son Diego, while he writes scripts for a living. There are flashbacks to the past with Lena’s story, how they met, fell in love and got into the accident.

Despite of the darkness and  the tragedy,which is presented, it is a really wonderful and subtle movie to watch. It has a lot of comedic moments, a great cast, and some interesting parts, for example when Mateo is filming “ Girls and Suitcases” which is a “film-within-the-film”.

Students really enjoyed the film, found it not too difficult to understand, despite the fact that Spanish is not their first language. Now they are prepared to watch the next film, on Wednesday 1^st of April, which is “Mentiras y gordas”.