guardian.co.uk - 5/19/2009
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Pedro Almodóvar reunites with Penélope Cruz for a sensuous film-within-a-film that is a moviegoer's delight Pedro Almodóvar has always managed to combine elegance and exuberance, and his latest movie is no exception: a richly enjoyable piece of work, slick and sleek, with a sensuous feel for ...
usmagazine.com - 5/18/2009
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At least it's not the swine flu. Penelope
Cruz was sidelined by food poisoning while in Cannes,
France, on Monday. See who showed up to the Cannes Film Festival last year. The Oscar-winning actress, who was at the film festival to premiere ...
Penelope Cruz Gets Food Poisoning in Cannes
telegraph.co.uk - 5/19/2009
nytimes.com - 5/13/2009
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Carmen Machi and Penelope Cruz in a scene
from "Broken Embraces," the latest from Pedro Almodóvar at
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Cannes Roundup: Day Six
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... . The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw finds it “a richly enjoyable piece of work, slick and sleek, with a sensuous feel for the cinematic surfaces of things and, as ever, self-reflexively infatuated with the business of cinema itself. Yet I wonder if Almodóvar isn't in danger of retreading old ideas.” ...
Caness 2009: Broken Embraces Trailer, Photos, Poster And Reviews
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... …The film-within-a-film motif is head-spinningly sophisticated, though the theme of cinema itself within cinema (traditionally rather overrated by cinephiles in terms of interest and importance) is kept fresh and alive through Almodóvar’s sheer energy.” Guardian ...
ROUND UP V: Pedro on Pedro, “Vincere” Premieres, and Sundance in Cannes
indieWIRE Recent —
... today, noting that “Almodovar offers nothing new.” “With solid performances and a script that’s never too hard on the ears,” Kohn writes, “Spain’s superstar director merely repeats the themes and conflicts of his greatest hits. With secretive family issues, tortured artists, melodramatic events and slight humor all in play, Almodovar dutifully plays to his base.” The Guardian‘s Peter Bradshaw is similarly unsure of the film, also wondering “if Almodóvar isn’t in danger of retreading old ideas,” and stating that film “is always conspicuously concerned with passion, but ...
Cannes 2009 Scorecard - Day 7
DAILY FILM DOSE: A Daily Film Appreciation and Review Blog —
... Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian UK, loves it, "a richly enjoyable piece of work, slick and sleek, with a sensuous feel for the cinematic surfaces of things and, as ever, self-reflexively infatuated with the business of cinema itself." ...
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