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Your favourite scene...

posted 15 years ago by jitterbug_cowboy
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My favourite has to be the scene with Penelope Cruz chasing the newspaper on the beach. It's an instant classic.

ENOUGH from the clown!!!!!!!!

[–] patrick_bateman_90029 15 years ago

Martel watching the video of Lena announcing her affair to him with Lena standing in the background narrating the video.

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[–] loveantinoo 15 years ago

That's my fav too, but also the one in which they are fiting wigs. Or maybe some of the funny moments with the lips reader.

[–] susan_batson2003 15 years ago

Agree, wholeheartedly!

[–] Mr_Ectoplasma 15 years ago

The staircase scene was quite the shocker for me, and I thought it was beautifully photographed (as was the rest of the film). The end was touching as well, when Mateo holds his hands against the screen as he and Lena kiss in the car; very sad.

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[–] velcronewsletter 15 years ago

i actually really enjoyed the final scene of 'girls and suitcases' where its been edited properly. one of my favourites, so funny

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[–] j_grae 15 years ago

After spending a long night together in Ibiza, Lena comes back from the bathroom and Ernesto looks like he is dead. Her reaction first of shock and then whatever.

[–] tresestrellas 15 years ago

I read her reaction as a mixture of shock, a bit of being creeped out, and then a dawning hope that the "monster" really might have kicked off. But a hope that she doesn't dare show, in case he really isn't dead.

[–] SayItRight 15 years ago

"Love..." "You say love i say sex", that part cracks me up everytime.
And any part that has Chon is hilarious.

[–] Goodbye_Ruby_Tuesday 15 years ago

The sequence of Lena and Mateo hiding away in the Canary Islands as Cat Power's haunting "Werewolf" is put to perfect use, particularly the moment where the lovers watch Rossellini's Voyage to Italy on the TV (I don't believe there is one European filmmaker who dislikes Rossellini's film, as Almodovar's visual quotation proves), Lena crying because she understands the significance of the love seen on the anguished face of Ingrid Bergman, and Mateo preserving their mutual affection by taking a photograph in lieu of the video camera he surely would've preferred.

Oh, it's perfect....

Love, love will tear us apart...again...

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[–] leos_imdb 15 years ago

every scene with Lola Dueñas lip reading. Her acting was very refreshing.

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[–] SeisCinemaSeis 15 years ago

'Los abrazos rotos' ain't perhaps amongst the very best films by Almodóvar, however it does contains some of the most beautiful shots that you can find on any Almodóvar film.
A couple of them: when Mateo Blanco/Harry Caine is touching with his bare hands the TV screen where the last kiss between him and Lena is being projected. And of course the opening scene with the blonde girl.

[–] Myth-and-Mayhem 15 years ago

I love every scene, but the final scene of Ladies y Luggage was wonderful. The comedy was such a welcomed LOL change of pace, and I was dying to know who was at the door! What an amazing ending.

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