Penelope Cruz

Penelope Cruz

Penelope Cruz She won a Golden Palm at the Cannes film festival. She was nominated for a Golden Globe award and for an Oscar. Penelope Cruz is definitely one of the leading ladies of Spanish cienma. In Cruz latest movie she plays Raymunda in Pedro Almodovars Volver. It is more than 16 years ago that Cruz made the screen explode as the very sensual Silvia, in the Bigas Luna movie Jamon Jamon (her first leading role). In Volver, Cruz is a "Latin mama", and gets in the footsteps of Sophia Loren.
Penelope Cruz worked various times with Pedro Almodovar and it was one of his films Todo sobre mi madre" that won an OSCAR. Also "Belle Epoque" (Fernando Trueba) in which Cruz made her debut as an actress won one. In Spain Cruz received a Goya (Spanish award) for best actress in another Fernando Trueba movie, "La nina de tus ojos"

Penelope Cruz

Volver

Volver, return, come back, that is what Pedro Almodovar's latest movie Volver is about. Return of Pedro Almodovar, celebrated director from Spain, coming back to La Mancha, his birthplace and get in touch with comedy again. Return of Penelope Cruz, (maja guapa) searching for fame in Hollywood but hardly ever convincing, now acting as if she is Sophia Loren herself (Oscar nomination for best actress) showing that sometimes, volver, is of greater value than a few dollars more. Come back of Carmen Maura, superb actress icon of Spanish cinema, who used to be Almodovar's main character in most of his first movies. Volver, return of a lost mother, who was supposed to be death but appears out of the nothing. Almodovar, always being a rebel, shows more than ever his warm part in a beautiful film that keeps you fascinated from the beginning until the end.

Pedro Almodovar about Volver:

"Volver is not a surrealistic comedy although it seems so sometimes. The living and the death live together.. and that provokes hilarious situations and sometimes an intense and genuine emotion. It is a movie about the culture of death in my birthplace La Mancha. The way the death are present in their lives, the richness and humanity of their rites make that the death never die..."

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