"I still have my accent, but I feel much more free now."

 
Penélope Cruz is busy, busy, busy. She's in her home town, Madrid, dashing to an evening shoot for Pedro Almodóvar's "Los Abrazos Rotos" ("Broken Embraces"), while talking to us on her cell as her driver zips in and out of traffic. She's got two other films to plug: the mournful "Elegy" opposite Ben... (link)

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ROSE IN BRIEF

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One of These Girls in Not Like the Other

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Isabel Coixet

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