query: production_company broken embraces
supports: La Movida Madrileña was a countercultural movement that took place mainly in Madrid during the Spanish transition after Francisco Franco's death in 1975. It represented the resurrection of the economy in Spain and the emergence of a new Spanish identity. Francisco Franco Bahamonde; (4 December 1892  20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who ruled over Spain as a dictator from 1939 until his death in 1975. He ruled Spain for 36 years. Broken Embraces ( Spanish : Los abrazos rotos ) is a 2009 Spanish romantic thriller film written , produced , and directed by Pedro Almodóvar . Led by an ensemble cast consisting of many Almodóvar regulars , it stars Lluís Homar as a blind Madrilenian screenwriter who recalls his tragic love for Lena , played by Penélope Cruz , the deceased lead actress in his last directional feature Girls and Suitcases , who was also the mistress of a powerful , obsessive businessman ( José Luis Gómez ) . Blanca Portillo co-stars as his agent Judit , while Tamar Novas portrays her son and Caine 's co-writer Diego . Inspired by darkness and by a photo of a couple , that Almodóvar took of El Golfo beach in Lanzarote in the late 1990s , the film serves as an homage to filmmaking , cinema and its various film genres . Stylistically , it is a complex noir - ish melodrama , that also blends comic elements with a film within a film -- a broad comedy , that hearkens back to Almodóvar 's 1988 release , Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown . Thematically , Broken Embraces addresses themes like voyeurism , repression , prostitution , death , vengeance , fixation , illness , and drugs . Broken Embraces was one of the films competing for the Palme d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival . Dubbed `` purest Almodóvar '' by The New Yorker , the film was noted for the director 's characteristic `` bright primary colors , '' erotic subject matter , and meticulous , `` visually pulsating '' cinematography . The picture was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at both the 2009 British Academy Film Awards and the 67th Golden Globe Awards . Vanilla Sky is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller romance film directed, written, and co-produced by Cameron Crowe. It is an English-language remake of Alejandro Amenábar's 1997 Spanish film "Open Your Eyes", which was written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil, with Penélope Cruz reprising her role from the original film. The film has been described as "an odd mixture of science fiction, romance and reality warp". The history of comics has followed different paths in different cultures. Scholars have posited a pre-history as far back as the Lascaux cave paintings. By the mid-20th century, comics flourished particularly in the United States, western Europe (especially in France and Belgium), and Japan. The history of European comics is often traced to Rodolphe Töpffer's cartoon strips of the 1830s, and became popular following the success in the 1930s of strips and books such as "The Adventures of Tintin". American comics emerged as a mass medium in the early 20th century with the advent of newspaper comic strips; magazine-style comic books followed in the 1930s, in which the superhero genre became prominent after Superman appeared in 1938. Histories of Japanese comics and cartooning ("") propose origins as early as the 12th century. Modern comic strips emerged in Japan in the early 20th century, and the output of comics magazines and books rapidly expanded in the post-World War II era with the popularity of cartoonists such as Osamu Tezuka. had a lowbrow reputation for much of its history, but towards the end of the 20th century began to find greater acceptance with the public and in academia. Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (born 25 September 1949) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, producer and former actor. He came to prominence as a director and screenwriter during La Movida Madrileña, a cultural renaissance that followed the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. His first few films characterised the sense of sexual and political freedom of the period. In 1986, he established his own film production company, El Deseo, with his younger brother Agustín Almodóvar, responsible for producing all of his films since "Law of Desire" (1987). A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession. The process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry. A film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion picture camera; by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques; by means of CGI and computer animation; or by a combination of some or all of these techniques and other visual effects. An ensemble cast or main cast is made up of cast members in which the principal actors and performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance and screen time in a dramatic production. Penélope Cruz Sánchez (born 28 April 1974) is a Spanish actress and model. Signed by an agent at age 15, she made her acting debut at 16 on television and her feature film debut the following year in "Jamón, jamón" (1992) to critical acclaim. Her subsequent roles in the 1990s and 2000s included "Open Your Eyes" (1997), "The Hi-Lo Country" (1999), "The Girl of Your Dreams" (2000) and "Woman on Top" (2000). Cruz achieved recognition for her lead roles in the 2001 films "Vanilla Sky", "All the Pretty Horses", "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" and "Blow". El Deseo (also known as El Deseo S.A.) is a film production company owned by Spanish film producers the Almodóvar brothers (Pedro and Agustín). The Girl of Your Dreams is a 1998 Spanish drama film produced and directed by Fernando Trueba and starring Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines, Jorge Sanz, Rosa Maria Sardà and Santiago Segura. The story centers on fictional Spanish Andalusian actress Macarena Granada, with whom Joseph Goebbels falls in love with.  A screenplay writer, screenwriter for short, scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media such as films, television programs, comics or video games are based. The Real Academia Española (English: Royal Spanish Academy), generally abbreviated as RAE, is the official royal institution responsible for overseeing the Spanish language. It is based in Madrid, Spain, but is affiliated with national language academies in twenty-one other hispanophone (Spanish-speaking) nations through the Association of Spanish Language Academies. The RAE's emblem is a fiery crucible, and its motto is "" ("[It] cleans, [it] fixes, and [it] casts splendour"). Law of Desire or La ley del deseo (in original Spanish) is a 1987 film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Starring Eusebio Poncela as Pablo, Carmen Maura as Tina and Antonio Banderas as Antonio. It was the first film Almodóvar made independently with his own production company "El Deseo". Agustín Almodóvar Caballero (born 1955) is a film producer and younger brother of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar.
  He was born in Calzada de Calatrava and obtained a degree in chemistry from the Complutense University of Madrid.
  He began his career in film production as a messenger in Fernando Trueba's film "Sé infiel y no mires con quién".
  In 1986, he and Pedro founded their own production company, El Deseo S.A. Through this company he has produced all of Pedro's films since 1986, and several French co-productions.
  He is a member of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain. José Luis Gómez García (born 19 April 1940) is a Spanish film actor and director. He has appeared in 33 films since 1968. At the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, he won the award for Best Actor in the film "Pascual Duarte". Gómez was elected to Seat "Z" of the Real Academia Española on 1 December 2011, he took up his seat on 26 January 2014.
candidates: 1974 el deseo france granada history madrid original film screen sky spain
answer: el deseo