Director Pedro Almodóvar has always found greater success abroad than in his own country.
And, with his latest film, Broken Embraces, The same is also happening because the American critics have loved it and it may be that it is one of the candidates to fight for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and, in addition, it has just been published that Broken Embraces has been chosen by the English Academy as one of the nominated for Best Foreign Language Film where he will fight against The White Ribbon, by Michael Haneke; Let me in, by Tomas Alfredson; Coconut. From rebellion to the legend of Chanel, by Anne Fontaine, and The Prophet, by Jacques Audiard.
The truth is that you will not have it easy at all fighting monsters like "The White Ribbon" and "Let me in" but it will help you get free publicity and get a good collection in England.