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Official Competition: Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz satirise the film industry as actor and director trying to make a movie

Official Competition pits an elitist thespian against a playboy movie star as they work together on a Spanish melodrama directed by an eccentric auteur.

ABC News

Why 'Official Competition' reunited Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz

They are among the most internationally recognizable Spanish actors of recent times.

Los Angeles Times

Penélope Cruz stuns in egocentric comedy

Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martinez also join in the fun in which an on-set rivalry leads to delicious oneupmanship

Salon

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Cruz and Banderas united by humor in 'Official Competition'

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Tom Cruise's wild love life as he turns 60 - three marriages, adoption, and Cher fling

Ahead of Hollywood actor Tom Cruise's 60th birthday next month, we take a look at Tom's dating history and some of the women who managed to capture his heart

Daily Mirror

Movie review: 'Official Competition' a sharp satire of film industry

In “Official Competition,” Argentinian directors Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn, with their longtime collaborator, screenwriter Andrés Duprat, send up film culture in this tragicomic dissection of the artist’s way, or rather, ways. Legendary Spanish stars Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas team up with Duprat, Cohn and Argentinian star Oscar Martínez…

Tribune News Service

The best films of 2022 so far

Tilda Swinton aces Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s dreamy fable, director Clio Barnard’s forbidden affair and Catherine Clinch in The Quiet Girl rank in the pick of this year’s films

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Spain Honors Penélope Cruz for Contribution to Cinema

Penélope Cruz has won one of Spain’s top film awards for her contribution to Spanish cinema, the country’s ministry of culture said Monday. The jury of the 2022 National Cinema award was unanimous in its decision to honor the Madrid-born star, describing the 48-year-old Oscar winner in a statement as…

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Spain honors Penélope Cruz for contribution to cinema

Penélope Cruz has won one of Spain’s top cinema awards for her contribution to Spanish film

The Independent UK

Streaming: the best David Cronenberg films

As the Canadian master of the perverse returns to Cannes with his first film in eight years, what better time to look back at his career, from Shivers to Crash

The Guardian - UK

Penélope Cruz’s 20 best films – ranked!

On her 48th birthday, we look through the work of the charismatic Spanish film star, who was Oscar nominated this year for Parallel Mothers

The Guardian - UK

What can we learn from this year’s honest Oscars ballots?

The annual tradition, where anonymous voters reveal their picks with brutal honesty, shows some likely winners for Sunday’s ceremony

The Guardian - US

Penélope Cruz: "I decide with my heart"

The "Parallel Mothers" star spoke to Salon about her fourth Oscar nod and the scene she was "terrified" to shoot

Salon

Oscars 2022: Two couples make Oscar history – and household tension – as both partners are nominated

Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, and Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons, are all nominated

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Oscars 2022: The two acting couples who got nominations

Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, and Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons, are all nominated

Tribune News Service

Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst are couples to receive Oscar nominations in same year

Love is in the air at the Academy Awards.

The Guardian - UK

Parallel Mothers review – Penélope Cruz sets the tone in buoyant Almodóvar drama

The Spanish director’s light-footed tale of female bonding and family secrets zings with his trademark colour palette and Cruz’s radiant warmth

The Independent UK

Parallel Mothers review: A complex melodrama that brings new depth to Pedro Almodóvar’s fearless women

A little of the Spanish filmmaker’s transgressiveness may be gone, but it’s left room instead for a more deeply rooted fervour

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Parallel Mothers re-teams Penélope Cruz and Pedro Almodóvar for film about motherhood and the Spanish Civil War

The star and director reunite for their eighth film together, for a film which won Cruz Best Actress at Venice film festival and is likely to earn her an Oscar nomination.

The New Daily

Almodovar’s engaging film Parallel Mothers once again puts women at its heart

The relationship between two women is at the heart of Pedro Almodóvar’s engaging new film, which also reckons with a dark period in his country’s history.

The Guardian - UK

Pedro Almodóvar on Spain’s tragic past: ‘You can’t ask people to forget’

With his new film Parallel Mothers, the director dials down the camp to address the shadow of fascism hanging over his homeland

The Independent UK

Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz once made Prince an hour late to his own concert

‘We were like, “Oh my god, they’ve been waiting an hour for us to finish the dinner,”’ actor recalled

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