Sony Pictures Classics has released a trailer for Parallel Mothers, the new film from Pedro Almodóvar which sees Penelope Cruz leading a cast that includes Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Julieta Serrano and Rossy de Palma. Check it out below, along with the NSFW poster…Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room […]
Movie Review – The Human Voice (2020)
The Human Voice, 2020.Directed by Pedro Almodovar. Starring Tilda Swinton.SYNOPSIS:A woman waits for a phonecall from her ex-lover of 5 years, after he has recently left her.In 1930, Jean Cocteau’s monologue The Human Voice premiered at the Comedie-Francaise. The piece at that time would have seemed dazzlingly experimental – an audience for the first time […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Human Voice
The Human Voice, 2020.Co-written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Starring Tilda Swinton.SYNOPSIS:A woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up, but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn’t understand that his master has abandoned him. Two living beings facing abandonment.All you need to make […]
Movie Review – Pain & Glory (2019)
Pain & Glory, 2019.Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Starring Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Penélope Cruz, Julieta Serrano and Leonardo Sbaraglia.SYNOPSIS:A film director reflects on the choices he’s made in life as past and present come crashing down around him. The title of Pain & Glory is a truly perfect way to describe the film. While there are […]
Movie Review – Pain and Glory (2019)
Pain and Glory, 2019.Directed by Pedro Almodovar. Starring Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Penélope Cruz, Leonardo Sbaraglia, César Vicente, Asier Flores, Nora Navas, Julieta Serrano and Raúl Arévalo. SYNOPSIS:A legendary director, Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas) reflects on his distinguished life and career, taking in relationships with his mother (Penélope Cruz), problematic leading men (Asier Etxeandia), and […]
Movie Review – Pain and Glory (2019)
Pain and Glory, 2019.Directed by Pedro Almodovar. Starring Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Penélope Cruz, Leonardo Sbaraglia, César Vicente, Asier Flores, Nora Navas, Julieta Serrano and Raúl Arévalo.SYNOPSIS:An ageing filmmaker is haunted by some of the ghosts of his past as he prepares for a restored screening of one of his most memorable works.With the movie […]
UK poster and trailer for Pedro Almodovar’s Pain and Glory starring Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz
Pathe has released a UK poster and trailer for writer-director Pedro Almodovar’s upcoming drama Pain and Glory which reunites the acclaimed director with his frequent collaborators Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz alongside a cast that also includes Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Nora Navas and Julieta SerranoSome of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood […]
Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz star in first trailer for Pedro Almodovar’s Dolor y Gloria
Sony Pictures has released the first trailer for Dolor y Gloria (a.k.a. Pain and Glory), the new film from Pedro Almodovar which reunites the director with his frequent collaborators Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz; watch it here…“Dolor y Gloria narrates a series of reunions of Salvador Mallo, a film director in his decline. Some of them […]
Is Cinema Really Dead If Scorsese Says It Is?
Henry Bevan on whether cinema is really dead…The ‘cinema is dead’ narrative has gone around for a while. It is normally spouted by some blogger who wants to get across their “hot take”. But, sometimes, someone of note joins in, and as 2016 came to a close, a director trifecta chimed in — Martin Scorsese, […]
Movie Review – Julieta (2016)
Julieta, 2016. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Starring Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grao, Inma Cuesta, Michelle Jenner, Darío Grandinetti, Rossy de Palma and Mariam Bachir. SYNOPSIS: The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is […]
