The Festival de Cannes loves Pedro Almodovar and audiences seem to love his new film. At this morning’s first screening of “Volver,” some journalists in the Lumiere Theater clapped when his name came ...
On almost every level, Pedro Almodovar’s “Volver” proves you can go home again. The title — “Volver,” or “Coming Back” — suits not only the writer-director’s rich, nuanced comic drama of women coping ...
The pleasures of the new Pedro Almodovar film “Volver,” and they are many, have less to do with deep wells of feeling than they do with mastery of craft and a magnificent sort of artifice. It’s odd, ...
Pedro Almodóvar is the most prominent Spanish filmmaker currently working. With the release of Volver, which won best screenplay at Cannes last year, along with best actress award for the entire ...
Count me in the minority, but it wasn’t until “Volver” that I really began taking Pedro Almodovar seriously as an artist. Almodovar the high stylist is inarguably on display in “All About My Mother” ...
Pedro Almodóvar is one of the only directors who, a quarter-century into his career, remains an international brand name, his every new film anticipated and talked about the way Bergman’s or Godard’s ...
Pedro Almodovar has submitted his muchanticipated new film, Volver, forcompetition at Cannes. "The selectors have seenit and I understand they liked it, and we will have an answer from them inApril," ...
Pedro Almodovar's "Volver" walked away with five top honors at the 21st Goya Awards ceremony Sunday, leaving rivals "Alatriste," "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Salvador" to divvy up the remainder of the ...
A man comes up to me while I’m having breakfast in a bar. He tells me he’s seen “Bad Education” three times. I thank him, as I normally do. The first time I fell asleep, the stranger explains. Did it ...
Sofia Sheehan is a freelance Resource writer at Collider. She is a Philadelphia-based writer whose work has appeared in online publications like High on Films, Borrowing Tape, and Boathouse Pictures.