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Almodóvar Gets Duplicitous With 'Broken Embraces'new

Broken Embraces is a strange little suspense film. It contains only a few strategic betrayals and outright deceptions, but a great many unspoken secrets and many lies of omission. Maybe it's too mature for the good old double-cross, but it is certainly not too subtle to include a few revelations and theatrical set pieces.
Fast Forward Weekly  |  Sean Stewart  |  01-14-2010  |  Reviews

'Broken Embraces' Turns Cameras on Visionary Filmmakersnew

Two new films about filmmaking put plenty of talent on display – and share Penélope Cruz at her most attractive – without fully engaging their audiences. Pedro Almodóvar's melodrama Broken Embraces turns out to be a little too personal, while Rob Marshall's musical head-trip Nine may not be personal enough.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta)  |  Curt Holman  |  01-12-2010  |  Reviews

Penelope Cruz on Almodovar and 'Broken Embraces'new

“The first time I worked with him, I was a whore giving birth in a bus. Then, a nun that gets pregnant from a transvestite. Every time I have my moment of ‘Really, isn’t this going to be too much? How are we going to make this believable?’ And then, he does it. Every single time.”
Montreal Mirror  |  Mark Slutsky  |  12-18-2009  |  Profiles & Interviews

Women's Worknew

The opening shots of Almodovar's lyrical, emotionally lush Volver feature a band of women, young and old, vigorously scrubbing down the tombs of their provincial town's menfolk.
Style Weekly  |  Thomas Peyser  |  02-08-2007  |  Reviews

Female Troublenew

Penelope Cruz's magnificent, Oscar-nominated performance also marks a welcome return to Spain from the wife-and-girlfriend ghetto of her disappointing Hollywood sojourn.
INDY Week  |  Laura Boyes  |  01-25-2007  |  Reviews

Coming Homenew

Almodovar plumbs the feminine mystique — again.
Eugene Weekly  |  Molly Templeton  |  01-25-2007  |  Reviews

A Celebration of Womennew

No working male director loves the community of women more than Almodovar, and Volver is his ode of love to women's congress and fortitude.
Austin Chronicle  |  Marjorie Baumgarten  |  01-15-2007  |  Reviews

Care Bearers

Pedro Almodovar celebrates communities of female mutual support in Volver.
Salt Lake City Weekly  |  Scott Renshaw  |  01-15-2007  |  Reviews

Mommie Deadestnew

Volver achieves a hollow perfection.
Washington City Paper  |  Mark Jenkins  |  12-22-2006  |  Reviews

Back to La Manchanew

By anyone else's standards, Almodovar's latest would be great instead of just really good.
Los Angeles CityBeat  |  Andy Klein  |  11-03-2006  |  Reviews

Almodovar's Latest Muse

Penelope Cruz talks about Volver.
Maui Time  |  Cole Smithey  |  11-02-2006  |  Profiles & Interviews

Viva Pedro!new

In this series, eight Pedro Almodovar re-releases in two weeks lead up to the release of his new film Volver.
Austin Chronicle  |  Marjorie Baumgarten  |  10-06-2006  |  Movies

Cruz Controlnew

Penelope Cruz opens up about her reunion with Pedro Almodovar and her mind-blowing Cannes prizewinning turn in Volver.
NOW Magazine  |  John Harkness  |  09-08-2006  |  Profiles & Interviews

Extra Creditnew

Almodovar makes good with Bad Education.
Missoula Independent  |  Nicole Panter  |  02-18-2005  |  Reviews

An Unsentimental Educationnew

Almodóvar delivers the finest movie of his career: a film noir melodrama that maybe should be called film sanguine.
Austin Chronicle  |  Marjorie Baumgarten  |  02-05-2005  |  Reviews

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