Penélope Cruz

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Vanishing act: what happens when stars don’t show up for the red carpet?
As the Sag-Aftra strikes roll on, film schedules are being torn up and A-listers are ditching promotional duties. But what’s a film festival without the talent?

Ryan Gilbey

01, Sep, 2023 @4:00 AM

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Ferrari review – Michael Mann’s watchable race-car drama rarely puts pedal to metal
Adam Driver plays an Enzo Ferrari whose racing days are over, bumbling between his wife, his mistress and bankruptcy in a film that only comes to life during the crash scenes

Peter Bradshaw

31, Aug, 2023 @5:05 PM

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L’immensità review – Penélope Cruz stars in turbulent family drama set in 70s Rome
A mother and her eldest child negotiate parallel realms of unhappiness in Emanuele Crialese’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama

Wendy Ide

12, Aug, 2023 @2:00 PM

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L’Immensità review – desperation and secret yearning in 1970s Rome
Emanuele Crialese’s drama of family dysfunction, starring Penélope Cruz, offers moments of glorious escapist fantasy

Peter Bradshaw

10, Aug, 2023 @9:50 AM

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Best films of 2022 in the UK: No 3 – Parallel Mothers
Pedro Almodóvar teams up with Penélope Cruz again for his most political film yet, weaving Spanish history and modern motherhood in a cocktail of comedy, thriller and melodrama

Steve Rose

21, Dec, 2022 @6:00 AM

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Official Competition review – Penélope Cruz is a deadpan dream in wicked film-world satire
Two actors vie for the attention of their autocratic director in this hilarious Spanish-language skewering of the movie-making business

Wendy Ide

28, Aug, 2022 @7:00 AM

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Official Competition review – Penélope Cruz on fire in delicious movie industry satire
Cruz’s eccentric director employs unorthodox techniques to manage lead actors – and polar opposites – Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez

Cath Clarke

24, Aug, 2022 @8:00 AM

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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

Guardian film

09, Jun, 2022 @6:03 AM

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Penelope 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

Peter Bradshaw

28, Apr, 2022 @11:00 AM

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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

Stuart Heritage

25, Mar, 2022 @1:56 PM

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Oscars nominations 2022: the full list
From Dune to The Power of the Dog, all the nominations for the 94th Academy Awards, which take place on 27 March

Guardian film

08, Feb, 2022 @2:01 PM

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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

Wendy Ide

29, Jan, 2022 @3:00 PM

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