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Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz Embrace New Project – ‘Los Abrazos Rotos’
Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz are teaming up again, following their acclaimed collaboration on Volver. Their new project is a drama entitled Los Abrazos Rotos (Broken Embraces), which begins filming next month in Spain.Details of the plot are still unclear although Almodóvar has previously said that the movie, which he also wrote, will be shot in the “style of a 50s film noir”.
“It’s the longest script I’ve ever written,” the Spanish director told El Mundo last December. “It’s got something of film noir. There will be about an hour of American film noir from the 1950s. It won’t be a comedy but there will be humour.
“Cruz is to portray a woman who has a passionate and destructive love life. On his blog (www.pedroalmodovar.es), Almodóvar explains how he sees Cruz’s characters leading two very different lives. One life sees her “grave, hurt, pursued by fate … a fallen angel, a woman straight out from a 50s thriller translated to the 90s”. The other facet will see her “blonde, light, pop, ingénue, absurd”. Almodóvar’s blog, available in Spanish, English and French, promises to chronicle production on Los Abrazos Rotos.
Berlin Film Fest Offers Wide-Ranging Program
Films from as far afield as Iran and Japan will compete with strong Oscar contender “There Will Be Blood” for the top prize at this year’s Berlin film festival.
Twenty-one films are competing for the main Golden Bear award at the “Berlinale,” the first of the year’s major European film festivals — which runs from Feb. 7 to 17.
Contenders announced Tuesday by the festival organizers include Spanish director Isabel Coixet’s “Elegy,” based on Philip Roth’s novel “The Dying Animal,” and starring Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley; “There Will Be Blood,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s oil-boom epic, starring Daniel Day-Lewis; and Damian Harris’ “Gardens Of The Night,” featuring John Malkovich.
Organizers say they do not expect the Berlin festival to be hit by the Hollywood writers’ strike, which reduced the annual Golden Globes ceremony to a news conference. “We will not have a dead carpet, but a red carpet,” festival director Dieter Kosslick said, adding that Cruz, Kingsley, Malkovich, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson and others are expected in Berlin.
