Los Abrazos rotos Articles

Best Director Pedro Almodóvar for Broken Embraces Jacques Audiard for A Prophet Jane Campion for Bright Star Michael Haneke for The White Ribbon Alain Resnais for Wild Grass   Photos: Courtesy Festival de Cannes  

Broken Embraces: Pedro Almodóvar on the set (top); Penélope Cruz as the heroine (bottom). In the mystery-melodrama, a director and his female star begin a passionate love affair that leads to all sorts of trouble. Wendy Ide in The [London] Times: "Certainly, it is unmistakably an Almodovar film. Nobody else does richly-textured melodrama quite like him; nobody else can encourage such overwrought performances without unbalancing [...]

Penélope Cruz, seen above in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, will not look like this in Pedro Almodóvar's next film, Los Abrazos rotos, for the director asserts he doesn't want his leading lady to "repeat those [hairstyles] she has worn in other films."   Pedro Almodóvar, on his website: "Regarding the English translation of the original title, Los abrazos rotos, I have seen in some [...]