Pain and Glory (2019)
★★★★☆
In personal and revealing Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria) award-winning director Pedro Almodóvar looks back on his life, loves and passion for films.
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Cannes Film Festival: Pain and Glory (2019)
★★★★☆
In Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria award-winning director Pedro Almodóvar looks back on his life, loves and passion for films.
Everybody Knows (2018)
★★★★☆
Everybody Knows (Todos Lo Saben) is Iranian Asgar Farhadi’s Spanish-language first, a family drama-cum-thriller with top stars Penélope Cruz, Javier Badem and Ricardo Darín.
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Day 1
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2018
The Queen of Spain (2017)
★☆☆☆☆
The story of a Hollywood production filming in Franco’s Spain, Fernando Trueba’s The Queen of Spain offers entertainment with no respite.
Ma Ma (2015)
★★★☆☆
Penélope Cruz stars as a saintly breast cancer sufferer in Julio Medem’s terminal illness melodrama Ma Ma.
I’m So Excited / Los Amantes Pasajeros (2013)
★★★☆☆
Cross check and doors to manual, Almodóvar’s I’m So Excited smuggles camp humour onboard a plane heading into disaster. Only the sky’s the limit.
The Skin I Live In / La Piel Que Habito (2011)
★★★★☆
Neither really a return to form for Almodóvar nor a Banderas reinvention, The Skin I Live In is good clean, honest fun. Like Frankenstein and no monster.