‘Parallel Mothers’ Trailer: Pedro Almodóvar Tells Another Story About Motherhood In A Drama Starring Penélope Cruz

Penelope Cruz and Maggie Gyllenhaal are two of the big winners at the 2021 Venice Film Festival!

Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz had a run-in in Venice today!

Penelope Cruz is attending another 2021 Venice Film Festival premiere!

Official Competition (Competencia Oficial) announces its meta intentions with its very title. Here is a Venice Film Festival competitor about the making of a festival film. Lampooning the very world in which it exists, the Spanish comedy-drama is a highly entertaining entry with winning performances from Penelope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez.

th birthday, pharmaceutical magnate/billionaire Humberto Suarez (José Luis Gómez) wants to secure his legacy and his name for perpetuity. Maybe he’ll finance a brilliant art film, or maybe he’ll build a bridge.

Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas are all smiles at the 2021 Venice Film Festival!

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Protagonist Pictures has closed a UK all rights deal with Curzon for Spanish-language pic Official Competition starring Antonio Banderas, Penelope Cruz and Oscar Martínez.

Penelope Cruz and Milena Smit coordinate their black and white looks for the premiere of Madres Paralelas during the 2021 Venice International Film Festival on Wednesday (September 1) in Venice, Italy.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorAt the Venice Film Festival, the masks stay on, even during the standing ovation.At least that became protocol during the festival’s opening night movie, “Parallel Mothers,” on Wednesday night in Italy.Director Pedro Almodóvar and his muse Penelope Cruz didn’t so much as touch their face coverings during an enthusiastic five-minute standing ovation at the historic Sala Grande for the Spanish film.As soon as the credits rolled, Cruz leaned over and clutched

Pedro Almodovar’s Parallel Mothers had Venice Film Festival attendees on their feet in the Sala Grande this evening, giving the opening night world premiere a nine-minute standing ovation. The movie, which traces the complicated relationship of two women (Penelope Cruz and newcomer Milena Smit) who meet in a hospital room where they are going to give birth, was screened for the press this morning and has received resoundingly positive reviews.

“You need to know what kind of country you’re living in!” Janis snaps at Ana — the much younger woman who shared her hospital ward when she was giving birth — in Parallel Mothers, the Venice Film Festival’s opener.

Penelope Cruz’s role in Pedro Almodovar’s Parallel Mothers (Madres Paralelas) is “one of the most difficult characters” she has ever played, the actress told the press corps at the Venice Film Festival this afternoon. It’s a good thing then that she made the movie with long time collaborator Almodovar, who she called, “my safety net. He can ask me to do something that can really scare me, but I know he will be there.”

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorPenelope Cruz first fell in love with director Pedro Almodovar at the age of 16, when she snuck in — then too young to see an R-rated film — to watch 1989’s “Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!”Since then, they’ve worked together on seven projects, and she’s served as his muse in everything from 1997’s “Live Flesh” to 1999’s “All About My Mother” and 2006’s “Volver.”Their latest project, “Parallel Mothers” premieres as the opening night movie at the 78th annual Venice Film

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe 78th Venice Film Festival gets underway Wednesday with a slew of Hollywood stars expected on the red carpet for the Sept.

Penelope Cruz knows how to make an entrance.

A love that was years in the making! Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem knew each other for more than a decade before their relationship became romantic, and since then, they have managed to keep their personal lives relatively private.

Jennifer Yuma editorSony Pictures Classics has released a trailer for Pedro Almodovar’s “Parallel Mothers,” premiering in theaters on Dec. 24.The film stars Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Israel Elejalde, Julieta Serrano and Rossy de Palma.

Penelope Cruz cooled off by taking a dip in the ocean Thursday during her Italian vacation with husband Javier Bardem.  The couple was seen getting playful and sharing PDA while on the trip. Cruz, 47, and Bardem, 52, were also spotted enjoying a beach day in early July.The "Vanilla Sky" actress wore a light blue one-piece swimsuit while the Spanish actor rocked black swim trunks and sunglasses.