[caption id="attachment_4532" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Pedro Almodóvar"][/caption] Last Thursday, the Cape Breton Island Film Series showed Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces, which Roger Ebert describes as, "a voluptuary of a film, drunk on primary colors, caressing Penelope Cruz, using the devices of a Hitchcock to distract us with surfaces while the sinister uncoils beneath." It's a lush, layered melodrama, with lots of surprises hidden among its folds, including this utterly unexpected footnote to Contrarian's conversation about whether medical science should try to "cure" Down syndrome. The central character, Harry Caine (Lluís Homar), is a movie director who turns to script-writing after a brutal car...