Broken Embraces is a modern tragedy: a wealthy businessman’s beautiful wife (played by Penelope Cruz) falls for a film director and together they flee from the vengeful husband to
Lanzarote. Their new life together is cut short, however, by a car accident which kills Cruz’s character and blinds her lover. The dark side of the story is reflected by the black volcanic soil of Lanzarote, but what the film doesn’t show is the range of other colours in the hauntingly beautiful landscape: red shale, orange cliffs, pale green lichens, whitewashed villages, green palms, a turquoise sea...