1 Sunday
12:30 p.m. Sunday Afternoon Live
at the Chazen: Pro Arte Quartet.
2 p.m. A docent leads a 40-minute
tour, docent’s choice.
2 p.m. Sunday Cinematheque:
The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar.
Broken Embraces (Los abrazos
rotos), Spain, 2009, 35mm, 127
min., Spanish with English subtitles.
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar,
cast: Penelope Cruz, Lluís
Homar, Blanca Portillo. In 1990s
Madrid, a blinded screenwriter
ruminates on his doomed love
triangle with an actress (Cruz) and
a stockbroker. With the largest
budget of Almodóvar’s career,
Broken Embraces represents
the sumptuous pinnacle of the
director’s visual design, resplendent
with florid colors and rich textural
detail. “Four stars. A voluptuary of a
film… as it ravished me, I longed for
a freeze frame to allow me to savor
a shot. Pedro Almodóvar loves the
movies with lust and abandon and
the skill of an experienced lover.
Never has he made a film more
visually pulsating” (Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times).
5 Thursday
12:30 p.m. A docent leads a
40-minute tour in the permanent
collection.
5:30 p.m. Barbara Mackey
Kaerwer: The Ardor of an
Expressionist Collector, a
lecture by UW–Madison Professor
Emerita Barbara C. Buenger will
explore the discrimination and
spirit with which Barbara Kaerwer
tracked down, collected, and
presented the vast scope and
excitement of several of Central
Europe’s most fertile modernist
movements.
8 Sunday
2 p.m. A docent leads a 40-minute
tour, docent’s choice.
2 p.m. Sunday Cinematheque:
The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar.
High Heels (Tacones Lejanos),
Spain, 1991, 35mm, 112 min.,
Spanish with English subtitles.
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar,
cast: Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes,
Miguel Bosé. After a long absence,
an aging pop star returns to her
native Madrid to find drag queens
reenacting her past, and her
estranged daughter married to one
of her ex-lovers. But their long-
awaited family reunion is derailed
by a murder that provokes a flurry
of confessions. High Heels pays
tribute to classic mother-daughter
melodr