'Broken Embraces', nominated for the BAFTAs

Pedro Almodóvar's seventeenth film is nominated by the British Film Academy and has been nominated for the BAFTA Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.

Almodóvar will try his luck again at the British Film Academy's BAFTA Awards this time with The broken hugs. The film shares a category with The white ribbon, the Michael Haneke; let me in, de Tomas Alfredson; Coco: from rebellion to the Chanel legend, by Anne Fontaine, y A Prophet, by Jacques Audiard.

Almodóvar has already won the prestigious BAFTA awards with films such as talk to her (2003) o All about my mother (2000). His movies Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown (1990), tremulous flesh (1999), bad education (2005) y Return They have also been nominated on other occasions

The British Film Academy Awards ceremony will take place on February 21 at the Royal Opera House, in London's Covent Garden.

The broken hugs, written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, was released in Spain on March 18, 2009. The seventeenth in the filmography of the director from La Mancha, it began at the end of May and concluded at the beginning of September 2008, bringing to the screen a story of 'amour fou', dominated by fatality, jealousy, abuse of power, betrayal and the guilt complex.