Penélope Cruz
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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