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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 5 - Caught on Camera

Almodóvar pulls out of first English-language feature film

Oscar-winning filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar is withdrawing from his first English-language feature, "A Manual for Cleaning Women” produced by and starring Cate Blanchett

The Independent UK

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

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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

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

Pedro Almodóvar on Will Smith at the Oscars: ‘The devil, in fact, doesn’t exist’

The Spanish director’s Oscars diary relays five hours at the ‘freezing’ Dolby theatre and disparages Denzel Washington’s advice to Smith

The Guardian - UK

Whoever wins this year’s music Oscar, Hans Zimmer remains the most influential composer working in Hollywood today

As important to films as acting, writing, and design, music can instantly create a realistic or fantastic world, guide emotions and enhance storytelling. Yet the annual Academy Award nominations for best original score are one of the few times film music gets a look in with the general public.

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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

BBC The Graham Norton Show: Penelope Cruz 'in tears' filming for Pedro Almodóvar's new movie 'Parallel Mothers'

The film follows the tale of two mothers whose babies were switched at birth

Bristol Post

Parallel Mothers review: naughty and knotty, it ranks alongside Almodóvar’s best work

Penelope Cruz’s performance underpins everything in the latest intoxicating film from Almodóvar

Evening Standard

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

The Independent UK

Parallel Mothers review – Almodóvar delivers an emotional bundle of joy

Pedro Almodóvar’s poetic conviction and creative fluidity flow through this moving baby-swap drama about two single mothers and buried secrets from the Spanish civil war

The Guardian - UK

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.

ABC News

The Guardian view on remembering the Spanish civil war: the work must go on

Editorial: Pedro Almodóvar’s new film and a planned national museum both speak to the need to settle accounts with the past

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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

Rossy de Palma: ‘Almodóvar always leaves space for a little bit of life to come in’

The Spanish actor on 35 years working with Pedro Almodóvar, the joy of her 80s pop band, and facing up to her country’s past

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

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