Is there another male filmmaker who so celebrates the mystery of women as much as Pedro Almodovar? Only maverick director George Cukor similarly delighted in the intricacies and moods of the female ...

In “Volver,” Pedro Almodóvar creates an impossibly beautiful film. He fuses themes of child abuse, deep superstition and female resilience, depicting something simultaneously powerful and surprisingly ...

As indieWIRE reported in the Cannes dispatch, “Volver” begins on a blustery, sunny day as a group of women in a cemetery clean the gravestones of the dead. Penelope Cruz stars as a young woman with ...

Few film directors are more in touch with their feminine sides than Pedro Almodovar. And probably no one else could have constructed such a life-affirming black comedy out of the darkest, most ...

At Cannes, people were calling Pedro Almodovar’s “Volver” his most accessibe film in years. Some critics thought it was too mainstream, lacking the formal edge and experimentation of his last few ...

Fathers, it's your call. The star presence -- indeed, the very sight -- of Penelope Cruz might help you make up your minds. Another in a growing list of triumphs from Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, ...

Completists, take note: Between this weekend and next, the Normal Theater and Beyond Normal Films will be rounding up of two of those key Oscar-nominated performances we've yet to see on a big screen ...