PRETTY PENELOPE & ALMODOVAR AT CANNES!

Beautiful Spanish Actress Penelope Cruz with renowned..

Spanish Filmmaker Pedro Almodovar & Actor Antonio Banderas!

My most favourite Spanish Actress Beautiful Penelope Cruz is at Cannes with renowned Spanish Filmmaker Pedro Almodovar & Actor Antonio Banderas. Their film 'Pain and Glory' is in the competition of this '72nd Cannes Film Festival'!

Penelope Cruz in Pedro Almodovar's 'All About My Mother' (1999)

Filmmaker Pedro Almodovar and Actress Penelope Cruz is the best combination of contemporary Spanish Cinema! This started in 1997 with romantic thriller film 'Live Flesh'. Then came 'All About My Mother' (1999) with complex issues. This won 'Oscar's 'Best Foreign Language Film' award. And Penelope won 'BAFTA's 'Best Actress' award!

Penelope Cruz in Almodovar's 'Volver' (2006).

Then, I remember their film 'Volver' (2006) was in our '37th International Film Festival of India' at Goa. That drama revolved around an eccentric family of women. This film was also in the competition of '59th Cannes Film Festival'. In that Almodovar won 'Best Screenplay' award and Penelope won 'Best Actress'!

Pretty Spanish Actress Penelope Cruz at '72nd Cannes Film Festival'!

After that Penelope & Almodovar this combination's 'Broken Embraces' (2009) showed how blind screenwriter recalls his tragic love..And 'Im So Excited' (2013) was a comedy of 'the fleeting lovers'!



Now their new film 'Pain and Glory' is like an autobiographical roundup of this Spanish auteur's personal & filmic life..in which past & present come crashing down around him! In this Antonio- Banderas played the role of (similar to) Pedro. And Penelope Cruz did her offbeat role naturally! Almodovar intensely handled this film with experimental directorial touch!

Penelope Cruz in Almodovar's new film 'Pain and Glory'!

I hope this film will won awards in this 'Cannes Film Festival'!

All the best to Mr. Almodovar & Ms. Penelope!!

- Manoj Kulkarni
   ['Chitrasrushti']