The Spanish star Penélope Cruz won the award for best performance by her on Saturday night in Venice for her role in “Madres Paralelas», His new collaboration with his compatriot Pedro Almodovar.
“Thank you Pedro, you created a magic, I adore you”, she reacted by receiving her price. She also dedicated her award to Pilar Bardem, the mother of her husband actor Javier Bardem, who died in July.
Almodovar had already allowed her to be rewarded with the interpretation prize at Cannes for “Volver”.
Film that opened the 78e Mostra, “Madres Paralelas»Is built on the crossed path of two women who give birth on the same day in the same maternity hospital, and Penélope Cruz plays a forty-year-old photographer who becomes pregnant with an archaeologist and married friend, who has promised to help her find the burial. of his great-grandfather, who died at the start of the Spanish Civil War.
A tailor-made role for the 47-year-old actress, born in 1974 to a modest family in the suburbs of Madrid.
Penélope Cruz forms with her compatriot Javier Barden the flagship couple of Iberian cinema. Both like to remember that they owe everything to the late Spanish director Bigas Luna, who in 1991 brought them together for the first time on the set of the very hot “Ham, Ham”.
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