%0 Journal Article
%T The Shortcomings of Simulacra: Fragments of the Past in Pedro Almod¨®var¡¯s "Broken Embraces"
%A Marcela T. Garc¨¦s
%J Oce¨¢nide
%D 2013
%I Sociedad Espa?ola de Estudios Literarios de Cultura Popular SELICUP
%X Pedro Almod¨®var¡¯s oeuvre encompasses a collection of themes and references to his own back catalogue, all the while referencing many other well-known directors. Broken Embraces (2009) refers to and re-enacts scenes from Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988). Yet the references to the latter in Broken Embraces fail to enchant, instead creating a fragmentation of the past and ultimately shifting from a breakdown to being simply broken. The relationship between these films demonstrates the foibles inherent in reconstructing films within films, which relates to Baudrillard¡¯s recognition that cinema is constantly plagiarizing, recopying and remaking itself.
%K Almod¨®var
%K nostalgia
%K Baudrillard
%K flashback
%K Los abrazos rotos
%U http://oceanide.netne.net/articulos/art5-4.pdf