Cruz set to star in new Almodovar film
Oscar-winning director Pedro Almodovar has confirmed Spanish actresses Penelope Cruz and Carmen Maura will star in his next film, Volver, a comedy about three women from the same family seeking a better life.
The film is set to shoot in July in Madrid and in the region of Castilla La Mancha, where Almodovar grew up, his production house said today.
Maura starred in Almodovar’s films in the early 1980s and last worked with him on 1988’s Oscar-nominated Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
The new film is a generational story involving a grandmother, a mother and a daughter who journey from Spain’s south to Madrid seeking a better life.
“Volver is a cross between Michael Curtiz’s Mildred Pierce and Frank Capra’s Arsenic and Old Lace, mixed with the surrealist naturalism of my fourth film, What Have I done to Deserve This?”, the director said in a statement.
Almodovar won the best original screenplay Academy Award for 2002’s Talk to Her, and the foreign-language Oscar for 1999’s All About My Mother. His last film was Bad Education, a movie about a young man haunted by an abusive priest from his childhood.
