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...This gives Hollywood three films to see and debate, Others may be added: Babel, Dreamgirls, Pedro Almodovar's Volver - maybe the indie hit Little Miss Sunshine. That could be a dark horse like last year's Crash, which all the critics' groups except Chicago's ignored, the better to celebrate Brokeback Mountain. The field's more open this year. In the New York Film Critics' voting, the 12 awards went to 11 different films; only The Queen won two. And though we weren't thinking about it, the 11 films had 10 different distributors; only Warner Bros. had two winners...
...Oscar-winning writer-director of Talk to Her and All About My Mother cast Cruz as the embodiment of motherhood in a movie about three generations of women surviving the wild winds of his home turf, La Mancha, Spain--winds that blow in fires, death and some superfluous men. Volver is Spanish for return. Fittingly, with the film, Almodóvar has reclaimed the Madrid-born Cruz from the lost- property department of blond and bland Hollywood, where she has lived for the past several years carrying the cross of exoticism through a series of disappointing movies and tabloid-tracked relationships...
Penélope Cruz has arrived at the top, thanks, in part, to a bottom. The actress wears the plenteous prosthetic posterior under her 1950s Sophia Loren--inspired straight skirts and clingy cardigans in Pedro Almodóvar's new film, Volver. "Mothers have beeg bottoms," the Spanish director of culturally charged films says in accented English as he sprawls on a sofa next to Cruz in his suite at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles. "Your curves here are natural," he says to her, cupping his hands on his chest, "but not here," he says, pointing to his seat...
...says. "But women are still a bit suppressed and invalidated in this industry in this country. I feel like I get healthy when I go back to Europe and work where it's more equal." Which brings us back to Almodóvar's world, one in which women dominate. Volver took Almodóvar six years to write. When he started, he envisioned Cruz in the smaller part of the daughter. As time passed, "I suddenly felt that I wanted something bigger," he says. "I thought, Why not make her the mother?" So Almodóvar gave his modern-day Loren...
...After Volver, Cruz filmed Manolete, an English-language movie due next year about the famed bullfighter, played by Adrien Brody. Next, she says, she is planning to produce--to develop the kind of roles for actresses that she isn't seeing--and is getting advice from her pal, Frida and Ugly Betty producer Salma Hayek. "Maybe I should work a little less," Cruz says. "Making Volver has spoiled me. I am having difficulty feeling something that pushes me enough that I want to go to the set again. I am comparing everything I read to these experiences with Pedro." Cruz...