Category: Drama

Popular Movie Reviews: Volver – A Film By Perdo Almodovar

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moviegrande.com review:

Starring: Penélope Cruz, Yohana Cobo, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Chus Lampreave, Antonio De La Torre, Carmen Machi, Yolanda Ramos, Maria Isabel Diaz

Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar

Screenwriter: Pedro Almodóvar

Produced by: Agustin Almodovar, Esther Garcia

Running Time: 108 minutes

MPAA Rating: R for some sexual content and language.

Release Date: November 3rd, 2006
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

Here you can find more movies with staring Penélope Cruz.

Synopsis: VOLVER is a meeting of “Mildred Pierce” and “Arsenic and Old Lace”, combined with the surrealistic naturalism of my fourth film, “¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!!” (“What have I done to Deserve This?”), that is, Madrid and its lively working-class neighbourhoods, where the immigrants from the various Spanish provinces share dreams, lives and fortune with a multitude of ethnic groups and other races. At the heart of this social framework, three generations of women survive wind, fire and even death, thanks to goodness, audacity and a limitless vitality.

Penelope Cruz in Volver

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From paedophile priests to psychotic transsexuals, Spain’s most outrageous director has tackled ever more raucous themes as he captured the dark underbelly of his country. Now, in the highly acclaimed Volver, Pedro Almodovar confronts the one topic that had eluded him – death. But, asks …

Popular Movie Reviews: Babel

Posted on by Blakney John

MovieGrande presents – A Larger Than Life Film

Few times in film history have reality and fiction collided as they do in Babel, Alejandro González Iñárritu¹s (“Amores Perros,” “21 Grams”) update of the Biblical myth that claims to be the origin of mankind’s lack of communication.

Shot over the course of a year in three continents and involving a ensemble multi-lingual cast lead by Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal, and Koji Yakusho as well as a high percentage of non-professional actors from Morocco, Mexico and Japan, the film came to mean for all the people involved a physical and psychological journey very close to that portrayed by its characters.

CHAPTER 2

The Heart of the Matter

At the center of Babel is the subject at the core of 21st century life: lack of communication. “On a conventional level (and conventions are sometimes useful to tell stories,) it can be said that Babel is about miscommunication, but for me, at the bottom line, the film is about how vulnerable and fragile we are as human beings and when a link is broken, it’s not the link that is rotten but the chain itself.” By this he doesn´t mean the obvious definition of language barriers.

CHAPTER 3

A Real-Life Casting

To bring to life the array of diverse characters in Babel, Iñárritu knew he would need to assemble …