

Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
Cinematography
Every frame drips with Almodóvar's saturated, wounded color palette.
Acting
Cruz at her most devastating—vulnerable armor and all.
Direction
Almodóvar directing a film about a director directing. Delicious.

Director
Pedro Almodóvar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film-within-a-film structure directly references Almodóvar's own Women on the Verge, making this his most autobiographically naked work.
Lluís Homar's performance as both Mateo and Harry required him to play blindness while simultaneously conveying a man who remembers seeing—Almodóvar filmed his eyes in extreme close-up to capture this tension.